Beijing (Friday, 22/4/2011)— Legislation Drafting
Working Committee of Commission VIII of the House of Representative of the
Republic of Indonesia (Panja RUU Komisi
VIII) led by the Commission of Vice-Chairman, H. Gondo
Radityo Gambiro, has
concluded its 5-day working trip to Beijing and Xi’an, PRC, today. It has been
a productive comparative study trip to directly observe the best practices and
to gather information that would provide inputs to the drafting of Legislation
on Poverty Alleviation in Indonesia.
Chinese Government acknowledged that the number of
poor people in China was still very large, reaching 40 million. The Director of
the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development (LGOP),
Fan Xiaojian, explained to the Indonesian visiting
delegation to LGOP that the Chinese Government therefore has continued stepping
up efforts to tackle poverty and to assist the Chinese poor, among others, by
providing financial aids, soft loans for small-scale industry and agriculture,
and assistance in housing, education and medical services. LGOP is a
governmental institution under the State Council responsible for coordinating
research projects, proposing draft regulations and plans for the economic and
social development of the impoverished regions, as well as coordinating the
efforts to address the issues of poverty alleviation in China.
On Tuesday (19/4/2011), the delegation of
Commission VIII met with its Chinese counterpart, the National People’s
Congress of the People’s Republic of China (NPC). During the meeting, the
Vice-Chairman of Commission for Internal and Legal Affairs of the NPC, Liu Zhenhua, asserted that the poverty in China, while
decreasing in quantity over the years, still requires utmost attention. He also
added that China currently had not had a particular decree or bylaw on poverty
alleviation although it had been included and addressed in the existing
regulations on social matters.
During the China trip, the delegation also visited
the Beijing Social Welfare Institution No.1—the first nursery in Beijing, Xi’an
Handicapped Children Rehabilitation & Training Center and Xi’an Welfare
Institution—the biggest in Shaanxi, the home of Terracotta warriors, and met
and exchanged views with top official and staffers of the Indonesian Embassy in
Beijing. From the visits, members of delegates acquired comprehensive
information on the organization of social welfare related institution,
including the sustainable management of personnel, budget, facilities and
services. The delegation continued its trip to Shenzhen, Guangdong, to meet
with the Bureau of Planning and Development of Shenzhen.