The Multi-stakeholder Cooperative model has not yet developed in Indonesia. One of the reasons is due to regulatory limitations. Building this model without sufficient regulation can be a dilemma and a problem. Because this model is different from conventional cooperatives in general.

In conventional cooperatives, membership is on a person-by-person basis. Whereas multi-stakeholder, group-based with different types of members. This does not include differences in the context of decision making. The conventional model of voting is on a person-by-person basis. While multi-stakeholder, based on the type of member group.

On the occasion of the hearing, Firdaus Putra, HC., Executive Committee, explained the multi-stakeholder cooperative and the urgency of its development in Indonesia. One of the options offered is by making an umbrella regulation through a Government Regulation (PP) derived from the Omnibus Law No. 11 of 2020. Because if we wait for the revision of the cooperative law, it can take a long time. “At least this can be an umbrella for experimentation in the field. Then while we see how the community welcomes it, “he continued.

The Deputy for Supervision of Cooperatives, Ahmad Zabadi, sees this multi-stakeholder cooperative model as attractive. He gave an example that in the 1990s in Indonesia there was a large taxi cooperative. But then declined due to institutional governance problems. “This multi-stakeholder model can be a solution in cases such as taxi cooperatives like that,” he said.

Today’s discussion concludes that this model is important to develop. Then it needs to be followed up by preparing various scenarios. Namely making a pilot project, by assisting the embryos in the field so that they can stand as a multi-stakeholder cooperative. Besides that, by arranging it through the upcoming regulation.