The Importance of Development Planner
Samarinda, 4/7/12. The importance of planners for development in the area is like a doctor in a hospital or a lecturer 
at the university so that the role of a planner is very much needed and is very important for the future development programs from Bappenas.
Meanwhile, according to the Head of East Kalimantan Bappeda, Dr.Ir.H. Rusmadi.MS states that "the importance of quality planning staff to support development programs in the region, if the outstanding planning is problematic, surely the development program at downstream is also problematic" he said.
This was revealed by the Head of East Kalimantan Bappeda, Dr.Ir.H Rusmadi.MS when giving a speech while opening a program socialization event in 2012-2013 with the theme "The Role of Pusbindiklatren as an Agency for Planning Functional Position (JFP) and Planning Training Organizers" in the basic pattern of Bappeda Kaltim, Jl. Kusuma Bangsa No. 2 Samarinda and held in collaboration between the Provincial Government of East Kalimantan in this case Bappeda Province of East Kalimantan and Bappenas.
Participants in the 2012-2013 program socialization were attended by approximately seventy-five people consisting of all relevant SKPDs within the Provincial Government of East Kalimantan and Regency/City Bappeda in East Kalimantan and related SKPD in the Regency/City Government in East Kalimantan.
Enthusiastic participants were very responding well to, with the many questions submitted to the Nasuber both from Bappenas and from the University of Indonesia, one of which became the concern of the participants was the functional of the planner's functional staff to be very minimal when compared to the structural officials so that it was suspected that the small planning tunjungan had reduced interest in becoming a functional planner functional staff, most of the participants who were present asked this is. 
