Jakarta, Feb. 5 -- Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs, Zulkifli Hasan, has set a target to complete the development of supporting facilities for 30,000 cooperatives under the Red and White Village Cooperatives program by May 2026.

"The target is to finish construction between May and June. Once the facilities are ready, we can move forward with the operationalization of the cooperatives," he stated following a limited coordination meeting at his office in Jakarta on Thursday.

He noted that the cooperatives are intended to make fertilizers, groceries, subsidized LPG, and other basic commodities more accessible to rural communities through the facilities currently under construction.

Hasan added that the government also e...