Jakarta, March 7 -- The Red and White Village Cooperatives planned to be established across Indonesia's rural regions will serve as a one-stop facility offering storage, savings and loan, pharmaceutical, and medical services, Cooperatives Minister Budi Arie Setiadi stated.

Speaking in a press conference after a meeting with President Prabowo Subianto, the minister emphasized that each village cooperative's design would be tailored to suit its host village's unique strengths and needs.

"It should be noted that each village has different conditions and strengths. For instance, there are agricultural villages, fishing villages, and urbanized villages," he remarked at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Friday.

Elaborating on urbanized v...