REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KUPANG -- Vice President Jusuf Kalla has urged cooperatives in the country to emerge as active businesses and not merely showing signboards or just as stamps.

"Cooperatives are not signboards, nor stamps, but common business activities and joint efforts," the vice president affirmed at the main event of the 68th National Cooperatives Day here on Sunday.

The number of cooperatives in the country during 2010 to 2014 reached 209,488 units in which 70.3 percent are active.

The cooperative members total 36,4 million with the cooperative business volume worth Rp189.86 trillion.

"We are grateful that 70 percent of them are active," Kalla stated, adding that an evaluation should also be conducted (against performance of the cooperatives).

Apart from that the East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) governor Frans Lebu Raya stated that this region has a commitment to become a cooperative province.

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