Attend the meeting of the village heads in East Java, Mendes invited to succeed in the red and white heads

Jakarta -Minister of township and development of underprivileged regions (Mendes PDT) Yandri Susanto, along with coordinating minister (Menko Food) Zulkifli Hasan (Zulhas), attended the town/Kelurahan Consultation -Special Formation of Township (Kopdes) and Kelurahan Merah Putih. This event was held in the East Java Expo, Surabaya. Yandri emphasized that the Ministry of Villages and Research regions (Kemendes PDT) is responsible for mapping the potential of towns in Indonesia for various purposes, as listed in the presidential instruction 9 of 2025. Including related to food self-sufficiency, village empowerment and to ensure that each town can be a food supplier for free nutritional programs. “We are in line with the presidential instruction number 9 of 2025, which has the task of monitoring potential and evaluating the implementation of the formation of eighty thousand thousand village/Kelurahan red and white cooperatives,” he said in a written statement on Wednesday (4/30/2025). Browse to continue with content “Therefore, it is also necessary to participate in the general public, by involving special village summit works by groups of farmers, fishermen, traders, traditional leaders or other village community groups according to local wisdom,” the former Deputy Chairman of the MPR RI added. Meanwhile, Zulkifli Hasan (Zulhas) said that President Prabowo Subianto was optimistic that the presence of the red and white heads could improve the well -being of the village community. One is the need for the quality of health, affordable education, fertile agriculture, and even in the near future can realize the ideals of food self -sufficiency. “With this Red and White Village cooperative, pack president Prabowo wants to prosper the town, education and health in the town. Quality food in the town so that we can have self-sufficient food later than 2029,” he explained. Furthermore, Zulhas emphasized that the main purpose of the formation of the red and white heads was to empower the community in general to realize economic independence at village level. He believes that when each town can be economically independent, the economic independence of a country will be automatically realized. Although with increasingly widespread global challenges and increases over time. “Later, all government activities and programs for the progress of the village economy can be distributed by the red and white heads (Village Cooperative),” Zulhas explained. In addition, Zulhas also invited all parties to establish partnerships and collaboration with different parties to realize the great mission. Including banking institutions. He also hopes that the red and white heads can meet the needs of residents, ranging from the distribution of food, 3 -kilogram gas, crop transport, to the supply of banking services such as Bri Link and People’s Business Credit (Kur). He is optimistic that the formation of the red and white heads through the close synergy between the government, the private sector, community organizations and other stakeholders can go well. “Heads can be used to access Kur. With a (total) national ceiling of RP 300 trillion by Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), it can be used for the development of the members of its members,” he concluded. (AKD/AKD) HOEGENG Awards 2025 Read the inspiring story of the exemplary police candidate here