The fund is needed to boost economic and other sector development in the districts to allow them to catch up with other areas, association chairman Mulyadi Jayabaya said here on Friday.
The state minister for development of backward areas has pledged to improve the welfare of 50 of 183 backward regencies in the country to bring them level with other areas in five years.
ASKATI chairman Mulyadi Jayabaya said each of the 50 district would need at least 100 billion to reach the target in 2014.
Mulyadi said the deadline for the five year program is only two years away in 2014 but not much headway has been made.
He said many of the 50 districts are richer in natural resources than other more developed regions but the potentials are yet untapped.(IGT)
: Masuki
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