Prabowo: Many Farmers Now Taking Holidays Abroad
President Prabowo Subianto has received reports that the welfare of farmers has improved to the extent that many are now able to holiday abroad. “I have received reports that many farmers are now taking holidays abroad. That is fine, they are allowed a holiday, when else could farmers holiday abroad,” Prabowo said during his speech at the peak of the 79th National Cooperatives Day commemoration in Senayan, Jakarta, on Sunday, 12 July 2026, as quoted by Antara.
The President stressed that the government continues to strive to bring prosperity to farmers, fishermen, and labourers. According to him, the national economic revival is expected to begin from villages, sub-districts, and regencies so that the circulation of money can remain within the regions.
Prabowo said the government is trying to reverse conditions that have been seen as draining the people’s wealth, by encouraging the benefits of economic growth to be felt more directly by the community. “We will make farmers, fishermen, and labourers prosperous. Our economy will rise from the villages, sub-districts, and regencies, and the money will stay in the villages, sub-districts, and regencies. We will reverse it. If all this time the wealth of the Indonesian people has been drained, we will reverse it; now the economy will flow down to the people,” he said.
On that occasion, Prabowo also asserted that the government is not anti-large corporations. Indonesia, as a large country, still requires the role of all economic forces, from cooperatives, micro, small, and medium enterprises, the private sector, state-owned enterprises, to regionally-owned enterprises.
The President said all these elements need to be strengthened together as part of the Indonesia Incorporated concept, which is expected to bolster the national economy. “That is what I mean by Indonesia Incorporated, that is what the founding fathers of our nation desired, that cooperatives are one of the pillars,” he stated.
Prabowo is optimistic that the cooperative movement will rise to become one of the national economic forces that can support Indonesia’s emergence as a wealthy and economically strong country. “If we strengthen cooperatives, it does not mean we will weaken others, no, we strengthen everything. Ladies and gentlemen, Indonesia is rich, Indonesia will rise, and Indonesia will be able to strengthen all forces in this Republic of Indonesia,” he said.