President Emphasizes Government's Commitment To Encourage Women's Empowerment

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo revealed three main conditions that must be met in an effort to encourage the empowerment of Indonesian women.

The three are equal distribution of digital infrastructure, digital literacy, and entrepreneurship skills training for women in remote parts of the country.

This was revealed by the Head of State at the virtual opening of the G20 Women's Empowerment Kick-Off Meeting, Wednesday, according to a press release received from the Ministry of Communication and Information, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, December 22.

The President emphasized that the distribution of digital infrastructure is very necessary because it can facilitate women in various productive activities. One of them is to make it easier for women in the digital industry to access financial services.

According to the President, the development of the digital economy will become more massive in every aspect of people's lives in the future, so that the Government is deemed necessary to accelerate.

"Equal distribution of digital infrastructure is one of them. This facilitates access to financial services in the digital economy for women," said the President.

Second, said the President, by encouraging Indonesian women to master digital literacy. That way, every woman is able to make good use of digital technology, especially for productive activities.

The use of digital space is considered to have a good impact in terms of improving welfare. Moreover, according to the President, it will improve the empowerment of women in the country.

"Women can make good use of digital technology, especially for productive activities," added Jokowi.

Third, improve and multiply the training and development so that domestic women are able to improve their quality in various ways, including entrepreneurial abilities.

Jokowi said this was important because it would have an impact on the progress of women in Indonesia to become more independent. In this way, Indonesia is able to have a positive influence on women's empowerment in the Asian continent region in the future.

"To increase the training and development of women's skills in entrepreneurship for the advancement of the protection and empowerment of women in the Asian region," said the President.