RI to allocate Rp100 bln for women`s cooperatives in 2008

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.