Definition
Microfinance is financial services to micro-entrepreneurs and low-income communities.
Microfinance institutions of formal, semi-formal and informal financial institutions conducting financial services to micro-entrepreneurs and the low / poor.
Microfinance institutions in Indonesia consists of two groups: formal microfinance institutions and informal details of the type covered by the following:
In Law. 25/1992 concerning Cooperatives stated that the cooperative is a business entity consisting of individuals or legal entities with the bases cooperative activities based on the principle;
1). Voluntary and open membership,
2). Management is done democratically,
3). Distribution of the remaining business was fairly comparable to the size of the business services of each member,
4). Provision of fringe benefits that are limited to capital, and
5). Independence, as well as well as people's economic movement based on the principle of kinship.
KUD is a social character of economic organization is a forum for the development of rural economic activities organized by and for the community itself.
Cooperatives are cooperatives that have been covered include legal entities, not including savings groups in gathering
Cooperative Non KUD Others include:
1). Marketing cooperatives are cooperatives whose primary business of distributing goods manufacturer, distributor or other merchant to the consumer.
2). Consumer cooperatives are cooperatives whose primary business providing goods in order to serve its members.
3). Cooperative Services is a cooperative whose main activity is engaged in services.