The Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare, Aburizal Bakrie, inaugurated the national gathering of the National Program for Community Empowerment of Self-Reliance Community (PNPM Mandiri) in Jakarta on April 28 as a meeting venue for those implementing PNPM Mandiri. This program, initiated almost 10 years ago, constitutes a program for a community-based program which now exists in 21 departments and institutions valued at Rp13 trillion. Thi