Prabowo Targets 30,000 Red and White KopDes to Stand by the End of 2026

JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto targets that the development of red and white village cooperatives (KDMP) can reach 30,000 by the end of 2026.

Currently, continued Prabowo, as many as 10,000 KDPM have been built and 3,300 of them are already operating optimally. Meanwhile, the rest are still undergoing adjustments.

"3,300 of them operate optimally and our target by the end of 2026 must be 30,000 Red and White Cooperatives standing and operating properly," said Prabowo in the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly and joint session of the Indonesian House of Representatives and the Indonesian DPD, Friday, August 14.

Prabowo admitted that the target was deliberately set high. He also alluded to President Soekarno's statement that he upheld the ideals of the sky.

"We put our target high. We remember Bung Karno's words, hang your dreams as high as the sky if you don't succeed, at least you fall among the stars of your brothers. The target must be high, work hard, God willing, until. If I put a target of 12,000, it will arrive at 11,000. If it is 30,000, it will arrive at 29,000, this is a feat," he said.

Prabowo hopes that the presence of KDMP can strengthen the people's economy. According to him, cooperatives are currently also in control of their own supply chain.

Furthermore, Prabowo also claimed that there would be no more damaged harvests because there were no buyers. Or the harvest is damaged because there are no trucks that can pick it up.

"Cooperatives can already become offtakers, cooperatives are buyers of local agricultural and fishery products. Cooperatives already have their own transportation. I also think this is the first time in the history of the Republic of Indonesia that cooperatives are organized with the help and equipped with their own transportation," he said.