Strategy Competition For Digital Economy Programs From 3 Presidential Candidates, Sweet Promises Or Realistics?

YOGYAKARTA - One of the themes that will be discussed in the presidential and vice-presidential debate is the digital economy. The digital economy is important in realizing economic progress in Indonesia and has an impact on people's welfare. So what are the digital economic program strategies of the 3 presidential candidates?

Ideas about the digital economy are interesting to observe because it is related to technological developments that affect economic activity. The potential of the digital economy in the country also needs to be developed massively. In campaign steps for the 2024 General Election, each presidential candidate is also required to plan a digital economy strategy.

The national winning team of the three pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates has already explained ideas and strategies in developing the digital economy in Indonesia. The following summarizes the strategy for the digital economy program from the 3 presidential candidates promised for the 2024-2029 leadership period later.

Candidate pair (paslon) number 1 Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar has a strategic agenda league to encourage the development of the digital economy. Wijayanto Samirin, the pair's vision and mission team, said that the strategies to be implemented ranged from legal certainty to strengthening bureaucratic mindset related to digitization.

The first strategic agenda: Anies-Cak Imin will establish regulatory certainty that facilitates digital innovation. In addition, they will also provide legal certainty to eradicate sectors that harm the community. In addition, they also continue to provide the widest possible growth space for sectors that can boost the community's economy.

The second strategic agenda: Anis-Cak Imin promises to improve the availability of digital talent so that digital economic maneuvers and innovations do not experience obstacles. The step they offer is to improve education infrastructure and harmonize the curriculum according to market or industrial needs.

The third strategic agenda: Anies-Cak Imin also plans to expand the distribution of internet network access in various regions in Indonesia. According to them, superior digital talent regulation and supply will be in vain if it is not accompanied by access and quality of digital services in the country.

The fourth strategic agenda: This candidate pair will encourage the expansion of Indonesia's micro and small businesses in the use of digital infrastructure. This step is taken to expand the market base so that digitalization can have an optimal impact on the domestic economy.

The fifth strategic agenda: Paslon number 1 will also encourage digital mindset in running governance, both at the central and regional levels. Anies and Cak Imin have concerns about the low digital mindset among policy makers.

The Prabowo-Gibran pair carries a knowledge-based economic strategy. The candidate pair number 2 considers that mastery of technology and knowledge needs to be developed evenly.

Budiman Sudjatmiko, Director of the Prabowo-Gibran Campaign Team (TKN) Debate, explained five targets for the development of the digital ecosystem to be achieved. The five targets are added value of the economy, justice of access, data security, increased collective intelligence, and level of technology control.

In terms of production in the economic sector, Prabowo-Gibran will intervene digitally in the production chain to increase work automation, cost efficiency, time and smooth logistics distribution. This Paslon 2 also has a priority to encourage the development of the digital economy, by means of a community-driven innovation approach.

Prabowo-Gibran will also encourage collaboration between stakeholders and policy makers for technology and market readiness. TKN Paslon also said that the candidate pair also encouraged the creation of 2.85 million jobs in the first year of its leadership to support the implementation of national digital programs.

The Ganjar-Mahfud pair developed a digital economy strategy by focusing on developing human resources (HR) and improving digital infrastructure. Andreasmas Widarto, the candidate pair pair National Winning Team (TPN), explained a number of ideas regarding the digital economy program.

The idea of the first digital economy strategy: Ganjar-Mahfud will encourage increased human resource competence, especially related to literacy and the quality of education in society. They considered that the state has an important role and must be present in efforts to educate the nation's life.

In the step of increasing human resources, Ganjar-Mahfud offers a program of one poor undergraduate family. This program is run by providing free early childhood education (PAUD) to high school (SMA).

Ganjar-Mahfud will also encourage children in Indonesia to have more knowledge in the digital field and technology information. This candidate pair TPN said the research budget should be increased to 1 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

The couple also plans to spur the development of digital infrastructure that is easily accessible, low cost, and fast connectivity. Ganjar-Mahfud carries the vision of improving data center infrastructure. This is because Indonesia's current data center capacity is only one third of the needs in 2029.

Such is the summary of the digital economy program strategy from 3 presidential candidates. The ideas or vision and missions they offer are important to be considered considering that it is a hope for the next few years. Also read the news of the KPK inviting the presidential candidate to compete with the idea of anti-corruption.

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