Jakarta, April 14 -- Minister of Villages and Development of Disadvantaged Regions Yandri Susanto suggested that village governments collect data on unemployed university graduates from their communities and employ them to manage Red and White Village Cooperatives.

"Let us encourage university graduates who are jobless in cities to return to their hometowns. Afterwards, it is important to train them to become managers or operators of Red and White Village Cooperatives," he stated on Monday.

Susanto made the statement during an event to disseminate information on Presidential Instruction No. 9 of 2025, as broadcast on his ministry's YouTube channel in Jakarta.

In his remarks, the minister also urged village heads to effectively manage t...