Indonesia Scales Back Military Training for Staff in President's Cooperative Project

MILITARY - JAKARTA. Indonesia has scaled back its basic military training for prospective managers of President Prabowo Subianto's village cooperative programme, a defence ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday, after five participants died in the first two weeks of the 45-day training programme.

The defence ministry is leading the training for nearly 35,000 people across several regional military training units. The programme started on June 14 and is due to run until July 31, and candidates must complete the training before they can become a cooperative manager.