Das KOPIkenTAL: Trust, Businesses & NGOs.
Tulisan ini dimaksudkan untuk mencermati aksi aksi yang tampil dipermukaan akibat pergesekan aspek "globalisasi" dalam
kaitannya dengan peranan institusi bisnis, Ngo serta "komunitas", tanpa mengikut
sertakan aspek "sosiologi" dalam konteks "teori akademistik" dalam menyikapi perubahan tatanan "global" yang sangat cepat.
Dengan demikian, maka tulisan ini tidak bermaksud berteori "sosiologi" secara akademis, namun lebih merupakan cermatan
"praktis-pragmatis" disertai alasan alasan berdasarkan observasi dan tinjauan langsung pada level lapangan, dan bukan pada
level teori diatas kertas. Tetapi berdasarkan pengalaman penulis sebagai seorang "developer" juga sebagai founder salah satu
NGO dengan pola dan system "self funding". Sekaligus sebagai salah satu initiator "inter-sectoral" institution yang berfungsi
sebagai lembaga konsultatif bagi pemerintah lokal di Makassar pada tahun 2002. Dan yang lebih penting, adalah cermatan penulis sebagai "rakyat
biasa" tanpa predikat "akademisi" atau "guru besar" dan berbagai "status" lain lain sebagainya.
Sebelum melanjutkan tulisan ini, mohon kiranya dicermati cuplikan dari penulisan tentang "Inclussor" sebagai berikut.
Sengaja dituliskan dalam bahasa Inggris, karena menghemat waktu saya untuk tidak diterjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia,
selain itu memang "Inclussor" tersebut tidak hanya diperuntukkan bagi masyarakat Indonesia saja.
Cuplikan kalimat tersebut antara lain:
"An extension of inter-sectoral dialogues is the formation of inter-sectoral/cross-sector "partnerships". Partnerships
involve moving away from one-way funding at donations and towards mutually beneficial, long term involvement and capacity-building.
Such partnership are based on "TRUST", and shared objectives and responsibilities, and can involve business working with NGOs
and public sector organizations in order to jointly address company and community needs.
To operate effectively, companies are increasingly realizing that they need to address a wider range of issues, and
respond to the impacts they make on the bio-physical and human environments in which they operate. In order to deal with this
issues to consult more widely and form partnerships with other sectors of society to understand the issues, the potential
solutions and how to share responsibilities.
Though some inter-sectoral partnerships have developed in Makassar, Indonesia, in all sectors of the society there
is both limited knowledge and trust of other sectors; as well as limited experience in building successful inter-sectoral
partnerships. There are also practical obstacle to overcome to build partnerships between non-traditional allies that have
different characteristics, structures, methodologies and terminologies.
Some companies have expressed their readiness to learn more about the NGOs in Makassar,
South Sulawesi, Indonesia. However, the NGO sector is large, and not well funded or structured. Further, there is no easily
definable source of information, which makes it difficult for companies to have readily accessible information about this
sector – and potential "partners". Moreover, in the past many representatives of NGOs have not had much knowledge about
the economy and the issues that are emerging, although that is rapidly changing, and have looked at the business sector mainly
as a source of funding. The result of such mutual limited knowledge -and lack of trust- was the formation of only a small
number of partnerships between NGOs and businesses. Such a lack of partnerships can be considered a result of the following:
1. Business has limited knowledge of the NGO sector, believe they have limited organizational capacity and credibility,
a limited understanding of how business "works", and NGOs "only want money."
2. NGOs think the business does not understand the NGOs, only wish to fund "established" projects, have limited knowledge
of the potential and benefits of cooperation, and business only acts responsibly when it is "pressured" to do so.
(For now, only 2 points from 5 points are exposed)
Jika dicermati, seperti telah dikemukakan sebelumnya, maka orientasi dari pembahasan Das KOPIkenTAL sebagai omongan
"warung kopi" kali ini adalah aspek "sosial-kemasyarakatan" tanpa melibatkan unsur "Sosiologi" dan "Budayawan" khususnya dalam
konteks "akademis". Tetapi lebih membahas aspek "sosial-kemasyarakatan" dengan memainkan unsur - unsur "ekonomi" dan "bisnis"
disertai pencermatan terhadap posisi "komunitas" yang terwakili dalam formasi "NGO".
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