Reconception of Cooperatives in Indonesia as Business Enterprises in order to Achieve People’s Welfare

Cooperatives in Indonesia are places of society's struggle in order to increase welfare, therefore Indonesia as an adherent country of welfare so it has been an obligation to support that struggle by making a set of rules on cooperative in order to be aimed more and as a guidance to achieve cooperative as a business enterprise that is aimed to make especially the members prosperous and generally the society. Understanding cooperatives is varied, it is known empirically that cooperative is a place to get advantages in the form of surplus (Sisa Hasil Usaha/ SHU) that will be given to the members in the end of book year, so this understanding leads to the concept as capitalist company in which the member of shareholder waits the result in the form of deviden in the end of the year, without hard effort in managing the company, and responsibility of a company that is very small because the aim is only at getting deviden. Concept of cooperative as business enterprise that collectivity and individuality have not reflected in regulation of law of cooperative in Indonesia, therefore through this study, the researcher wants to do reconception or rearrange conception or the way of people in seeing cooperative, especially concept that is stipulated in Article 1 Number 1 Law Number 25 Year 1992 regarding Cooperatives; it is mentioned that cooperative is a business enterprise that has members of individual or cooperative legal institution that the activity is based on the principles of cooperative and as society economics move based on kinship.