Jakarta, April 15 -- President Prabowo Subianto has laid out the target to establish 80 thousand cooperatives under the Red and White Village Cooperatives program in Indonesia's rural regions to advance his ambition to achieve eight percent economic growth.

This target was formalized with the issuance of Presidential Instruction No. 9 of 2025 to accelerate the implementation of the cooperative program in late March.

Under this instruction, President Prabowo assigned several key tasks to the Ministry of Cooperatives for the program's preparation and execution.

The president urged the ministry to implement the program to the fullest extent in the hopes of boosting the economy of rural regions, assisting them in fully harnessing their div...