President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) delivered a speech at the 3rd World Conference on Creative Economy (WCCE) in Nusa Dua, Bali on Thursday (6/10/2022).

JAKARTA, lightning.com- Communications and Information Minister Johnny G. Plate said President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has asked ministers to build resilience amid uncertain global economic dynamics.

“The President asks to be very careful so that Indonesia remains resilient, still able to cope with global changes,” Johnny said after attending the Cabinet Plenary Session led by President Jokowi at the State Palace, Jakarta , Tuesday (11/10/2022) .

Johnny said the current global economic situation is uncertain. In fact, disruptions in various areas such as the food supply chain, disruption of production in the energy sector, and turmoil in financial flows have created dangers for countries around the world.

“(Indonesia) is still able to deal with global change that is so incredibly dangerous,” he said.

Johnny also called on all parties to maintain political stability and democracy in the country well. This is intended to allow all parties to focus on the substantive issues in order to build Indonesia’s economic resilience.

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“We deal with substantive issues, not trivial things, what is substantial? in accordance with the law, which maintains our quality democratization,” he said.

Johnny admitted he was reluctant to gamble with the votes of a number of parties who had asked him to resign from the cabinet, after his party nominated Anies Baswedan as its presidential candidate in the 2024 elections.

“Regarding the simultaneous general election of 2024, whether it is the presidential election, the legislative elections or the election of the head of region, it is enough to follow the rules and use the diction , the diction that must be encouraging and make the election a popular democratic party,” he said. said.

On the same occasion, the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartarto, said President Jokowi had also instructed ministers to be cautious in policy-making due to increasing pressure from the global financial crisis. In fact, Airlangga said, the current global economic crisis could be more severe than the currency crisis of 1998.

“The shape is bigger than the 1998 crisis, where the 1998 crisis was in several ASEAN countries, of course the president also reminded us to take policies with caution,” Airlangga said.

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According to Airlangga, Indonesia’s external resilience is currently quite strong. The rupee’s exchange rate has indeed recorded a depreciation of up to six percent. However, according to him, the movement of the rupee is still stronger than the currencies of other countries.

“It is relatively higher than other countries including Canada, Switzerland, Thailand, Nepal as well as the UK, so Indonesia is relatively more moderate than some other countries,” he said. declared.

The deteriorating global economic situation was also conveyed by President Joko Widodo today after receiving a report from Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati who was in Washington DC, USA. The President mentioned that many countries have requested financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

“This morning I received a call from the finance minister in Washington DC. He told me that 28 countries had already lined up as patients of the IMF,” the president said at the opening of the 12th Congress of Veterans Legion of the Republic of Indonesia (LVRI). and the XI National Conference of Veteran Wives of the Republic of Indonesia (Piveri) Year 2022. (gie/ant)

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