Ministers plan up to 80,000 rural co-ops offering financial services, medical facilities, and farm logistics, storage and distribution

The Indonesian government is setting up a network of up to 80,000 village co-ops to work as “strategic instruments” for reducing rural poverty.

Government figures show that Indonesia has to 24 million economically disadvantaged residents, 3.17 million of whom fall in the extremely poor category, and ministers hope the new Red and White Village Co-operatives will help develop the regions.

  • PostiveNoise@kbin.melroy.org
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    6 days ago

    It seems like this would be awesome if done really well. Hopefully each village co-op won’t become a village hub of corruption, and the people working there will be monitored closely enough and paid decently enough so that they have good reasons to NOT engage in corruption.