Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesian Cooperatives and Small-Medium Scale Business Minister Suryadharma Ali has said that the government would allocate Rp100 billion for women`s cooperatives, or an increase of 400 percent.
"We have set a target of providing funds to 1,000 cooperatives for women to strengthen the women`s program of healthy and prosperous families," the minister said here on Friday.
In 2007, the ministry allocated a fund amounting to Rp25 billion for 250 cooperatives.
The ministry also planned to continue the Program of Productive Cooperatives and Micro Business (P3KUM) next year.
"We plan to have 6,100 P3KUMs in 6,100 subdistricts throughout Indonesia next year," the minister said.
The ministry intended to give more attention to the development of cooperatives in Islamic boarding schools.
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