Alluding To The 2025-2045 RPJPN, Puan Maharani Emphasizes The Importance Of Indonesian Development Politics

Chairman of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Puan Maharani. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Puan Maharani, alluded to the 2025-2045 National Long-Term Development Plan (RPJPN). He emphasized the importance of Indonesian Development Politics.

This was conveyed by Puan in her opening speech for the First Session of the DPR for the 2023-2024 Session Year, at the DPR Building, Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday, August 16.

"One of the agendas for the formation of the Law (UU) in the future which is very strategic is the Law on the National Long-Term Development Plan for the 2025-2045 Period," said Puan.

Puan explained that after the mandate of the 1945 Constitution, long-term development planning as the direction and priority of development as a whole and carried out in stages, was formulated in the form of a law.

The law in question is Law No. 17 of 2007 concerning the National Long-Term Development Plan for 2005-2025. For the next period, the National Long-Term Development Plan Law will be enacted for 2025-2045 to realize Indonesia Gold Vision 2045.

Currently, said Puan, the latest RPJPN Bill is still under discussion between the DPR and the Government which is targeted for completion in September 2023.

The regulation will later serve as a guideline for planning the second national development that was prepared in the reform era. The preparation of the 2025-2045 RPJPN Bill has also involved the aspirations of the people.

The existence of this law in the future needs to be optimized in providing overall national development directions and priorities. So that every President, Governor, and Regent/Mayor no longer has their own vision and mission of development," explained Puan.

The Task Of Building A Country In The Future Is Not Easy

Puan also emphasized that the task of building the Indonesian nation and state in the future is not easy. He said, a series of challenges need to be faced together, starting from external situations such as geopolitical, geo-economic, technological and information disruption, globalization of cultural values and others, and including internal domestic situations.

"Among other things, the problems of Human Resources, middle-income traps, equitable development, productivity, downstream industry, natural resource management, food vulnerability, energy, extreme poverty, unemployment, climate disasters, and environmental degradation," he explained.

"As well as the development of transnational ideologies that are contrary to Pancasila as the identity of the nation. Therefore, we must have Indonesian Development Politics," added Puan.

The Indonesian Development Politics in question is planned political activities, planned economic activities, planned social activities, planned cultural activities, planning national character activities, and planned regional development activities. In addition, said Puan, all other strategic planning activities.

"We must be able to put all of these work plans into the political design of development whose horizon reaches the future, and answer various problems of the nation and state," he said.

Regarding the political design of development, Puan invites all parties to understand and be able to see developments and tendencies in the next 25 to 30 years. Both from demographic issues, geopoliticals, geo-economics, energy, natural resources, technology and so on.

The nation that excels is a nation that understands its will of the times. The establishment of the National Long-Term Development Plan Law for 2025-2045 can be a momentum in strengthening the planned, guided, coordinated and sustainable Indonesian Universal Development Politics," said Puan.