THE ROLE OF COOPERATION AGREEMENT IN PARTNERSHIP SYSTEM TO IMPROVE INDONESIAN COOPERATIVE BUSINESS COMPETITIVENESSIN THE NATIONAL ECONOMY

Agreement law is very instrumental in carrying out partnerships between cooperatives and other business entities, because partnerships made without agreement will not have certainty for all parties. The lack of achievement will affect the rights and obligations of the parties in partnership. Cooperative as a legal entity, in principle, is the same as the form of other legal entities. However, in its development it is not the same as a business entity that has other legal entities such as PT and BUMN. In fact, the cooperative is a teacher of the national economy and as a legal entity, as stipulated in Article 33 of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. This pact is very interesting to study with the aim of: finding to examine the implementation of partnership cooperation agreements in improving cooperative competitiveness. The study was done to examine the increasing competitiveness of Indonesian cooperative businesses through partnership cooperation in the development of Indonesian cooperatives. This study used normative juridical research, with the nature of descriptive analysis research. The data collection techniques were done through library study or document study, but field data is also used to support and complete library data, after the data were collected, they were analyzed by juridical qualitative. Based on the results of research, it was found that to develop cooperatives to be able to have competitiveness, the cooperatives need partnerships with other business partners. The supporting skills such as: skills transfer process, production and processing, marketing, capital, human resources and technology development. Partnerships carried out between cooperatives and other business entities must be based on principles of mutual need, mutual trust, mutual reinforcement and mutual benefit. These principles are taken to eliminate a stereotype that the strong parties will run over the weak parties. The concept of partnership is in accordance with Article 33 of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, emphasizing that the economy is structured as a joint venture based on kinship. Therefore, the concept of partnership is a manifestation of the principle of kinship in the development of cooperatives in Indonesia.