JKKK plays vital administrative role
SRI AMAN: The presence of a Village Security and Development Committee (JKKK) in every village and longhouse in the state is one of the government’s strategies to create an independent and proactive community in development.
Assistant Minister of Rural Development Datuk Francis Harden Hollis said that the JKKK was an important body that played an important administrative role at the grassroots level.
“It is thus important that JKKK leaders are given skill training in all aspects of organisation, administration, management and development
It is thus important that JKKK leaders are given skill training in all aspects of organisation, administration, management and development to make them independent, productive and forward-looking.
Datuk Francis Harden Hollis, Assistant Minister of Rural Development
to make them independent, productive and forward-looking.”
“Skilled leadership and management are critical to the development of a village because community leaders are the bridges of communication between the people and the government when it comes to channelling development projects.”
Harden, who is Simanggang assemblyman, said this during a visit to Rumah Edmund Ubit a longhouse at Sungai Anak near Saratok recently.
He added that community leaders had to be more aware of what was happening around them, as their jobs were more challenging by the day as a result of globalisation and information and communication technology.
Later, he handed over a government grant of RM5,000 to the JKKK of the longhouse to fund their activities.