The creative economic opportunities in Indonesia
Indonesia has found a new leader. He's
just an ordinary person, but has a big dream to realize a great Indonesian. In
the presidential campaign debates, presidential candidate
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| Jokowi support national car developed by students. Image: bisnismanajemen.co.id |
Joko Widodo, or
better known as Jokowi has expressed his vision to realize the dream of the
anti-corruption movement, build the education system with the slogan
"Smart Indonesia", or Indonesia Pintar, and "Healthy Indonesia" or Indonesia Sehat, also build the
economy of the people, not just build large projects for economic growth only.
For alignments Jokowi on society and the youth, Jokowi will develop the
creative economy and creative industries.
In a
debate ahead of the presidential election, Jokowi in the presence of
competitors, the presidential candidate Prabowo, Jokowi clearly and
straightforwardly explain the great potential of young people in the
development of the creative economy such as movies, music, animation,
handicrafts, even Jokowi also eloquently explains on the management of stage
(performances). Jokowi is very understanding of the potential of young people
who are very creative. Business billions of dollars will be developed from the
creative industries sector. There are so many young people of Indonesia who
have talent in animation, game development, graphic design, software
development, music, movies, and other creative technologies.
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Jokowi
wearing a Metallica T-shirt before the Metallica concert in Jakarta. Image:
politik.kompasiana.com
Jokowi is
known to be very close to the world of art and creative activities. He is a big
fan of rock music, even he was enjoying heavy metal music, and have been
watching the show Metalica, Sting, and so on. He also had a great interest when
Michael Mann made a film in Jakarta. Before he became governor of Jakarta,
when he served as mayor in Solo, Jokowi creativity are excited to help students
to develop a cheap car to be mass produced, so that people can buy the middle
and bottom of the original Indonesian-made cars at affordable prices.
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| Jokowi plays a guitar gift of Robert Trujillo, Metallica bass player. Image: megapolitan.kompas.com |
As a new
president, Jokowi be serious to build Indonesia with a new spirit, mental
revolution, so that the bureaucracy in Indonesia could be more efficient, then
corruption can be minimized. Indonesian society can be disciplined, work hard
to achieve their dreams, especially Jokowi strongly supports small and
medium-sized businesses to be successful globally. Jokowi also friendly to
foreign investors who want to support the creative economy in Indonesia.
If you are young, or you have a young spirit, and you have expertise in the
field of art or science, you have the opportunity to develop your creativity in
Indonesia. Among the ASEAN countries, Indonesia has a Ministry of Tourism and
Creative Economy (Kementrian Pariwisata dan Ekonomi Kreatif), whose purpose is
to assist the development of creative art and other creative knowledge in order
to be transformed into a profitable creative industries. Are you ready?
The Ministry has provided an opportunity for young entrepreneurs to develop
economic creative economic in Indonesia, both directly related to tourism, as well as with
other business areas. If you could bring the technology to develop a
multi-media business is also very wide open in Indonesia, so the development of
businesses such as gaming, comics, fashion design, and so definitely have a
place in Indonesia.
