Jakarta, March 31 -- Coordinating Minister for Food, Zulkifli Hasan, on Monday informed that as many as 70 thousand Red and White village cooperatives will be established and made operational by July 2025.

The establishment of the cooperatives is still pending a presidential instruction, and is aimed at accelerating the supply chain from cities to villages, he said.

"Maybe in June-July, it can be 70 thousand (cooperatives will be established). These cooperatives will cut the supply chain by distributing goods from the cities directly to the villages," Hasan explained here on Monday.

He said that each cooperative will need around Rp3 billion to Rp5 billion for development, which can later be used to provide loans to cooperative members ...