{
  "id": 10404490,
  "title": "Candidate Managers of Village Cooperatives Protest at Agrinas: What to Know",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/candidate-managers-of-village-cooperatives-protest-at-agrinas-what-to",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-28T08:46:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tempo.co English",
    "slug": "tempo-co-english",
    "url": "https://en.tempo.co/read/2120468/candidate-managers-of-village-cooperatives-protest-at-agrinas-what-to-know"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On Monday, September 28, 2026, over a hundred candidate managers from red and white village cooperatives gathered at the headquarters of PT Agrinas Pangan Nusantara (Agrinas) in East Jakarta. They were there to protest their placement assignments, claiming they were being sent to locations far from their homes. Rahmat Saleh, one of the candidate managers, explained that the government had previously promised the candidates that their assignments would be based on their domicile, but Agrinas announced the placements differently on Friday, September 25, 2026. Some managers were even assigned jobs as far as Southeast Sulawesi or Papua, which can be over 2,000 kilometers away from their original homes. Saleh stated that the protesters had two demands for Agrinas. Firstly, they wanted the job placement of candidate managers to be based on their domicile, as outlined in Presidential Regulation No. 82 of 2026. Secondly, they demanded that Agrinas adjust the salary structure for the village cooperative managers if the placement cannot be contested, as living costs increase significantly for those far from their hometowns. However, Saleh noted that the salary remains unchanged regardless of the placement. Additionally, the candidate managers were given an extremely short window to prepare for their departure, with a deadline of October 1, 2026, just one week after the announcement. Agrinas also required the managers to approve their placement by Monday. Saleh reported that more than a hundred candidate managers attended the protest, and some representatives have already met with Joao Angelo De Sousa Mota, the President Director of PT Agrinas Pangan Nusantara. Attempts to contact Joao regarding the meeting were unsuccessful as of the time of writing this article. The Minister of Cooperatives, Ferry Juliantono, previously stated that the placement of village cooperative managers is carried out by Agrinas.",
  "summary": "Hundreds of candidate managers of the red and white village cooperative flocked to Agrinas' office in Jakarta to protest their placements.",
  "key_points": [
    "Over a hundred candidate managers protested at Agrinas headquarters.",
    "Protests demand assignments based on domicile, not location.",
    "Managers face relocation to distant regions like Sulawesi or Papua."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}