Mendes encourages villages in western java immediately with red and white village cooperatives

Jakarta – Minister of town and development of underprivileged regions (Mendes PDT) Yandri Susanto urged towns in the Western Java to immediately form the Red and White Village Cooperative. This was done as a tool to accelerate village development. He said this when he launched the Special Village Summit (Musdeus) the formation of the Red and White Village/Kelurahan Cooperative in West Java in Bale Asri Pusdai, Bandung, Monday (28/4). The PDT ministry of towns received a command from the presidential instruction number 9 of 2025 to identify the potential owned by the town and to help the acquisition of land for the red and white heads of at least 20 x 20 square meters. Browse to continue with the content of the presidential instruction number 9 of 2025 is a national strategic policy issued by President Prabowo Subianto to accelerate the formation of 80,000 red and white cooperatives in Indonesia. “The country is for the business unit for the acquisition of food, savings and loans, village clinics, village pharmacies, cool storage, warehouses/food sheds and village logistics,” Yandri said in a written statement on Tuesday (29/4/2025). Yandri emphasized that the existence of the Red and White Village Cooperative would not replace the businesses in the town (Bumdes). Conversely, the cooperative will strengthen the role of bumdes to encourage the independence and fair economic equality of the town. “The relationship between the red and white cooperative and bumdes will be institutionally arranged. Co -operatives can be part of the Bumdes business unit, or vice versa,” he said. The government is currently compiling implementation instructions (operational guidelines) and technical instructions (technical guidelines) as a basis for regulating the relationship between bumdes and red and white cooperatives. The village government, along with the BPD, carried out the Musdeus to discuss, institutional, capital, membership, organizational structure and the most important activities of the red and white heads. Musseus participants were village heads and village officials, BPD, community groups accompanied by professional assistants, family assistants, agricultural instructors, technical OPDs and other companions. The event was initiated by the Governor of West Java Dedi Mulyadi, who was also attended by Minister Saifullah Yusuf, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin, and the Minister of Population and Family Development of the Wihaji National Planning. (ANL/EGA) HOEGENG Awards 2025 Read the inspiring story of the exemplary police candidate here