Jokowi: It's A Shame Our Education And Health Are Still Ranked 57, 58

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) paid special attention to Indonesia's competitiveness from the education and health sectors. For that sector, Indonesia lags behind its neighbor Singapore and Malaysia. Referring to data from the Institute for Management Development (IMD) World Competitiveness 2024, Indonesia is ranked 61st for the health and environmental sub-sectors. For Indonesia's competitiveness level with other countries as a whole, it rose from 34 to 27." Unfortunately, from the competitive side, we although rising to 7 levels is very good. However, education and health are still ranked 57, 58," Jokowi said as seen by the Presidential Secretariat YouTube channel, Thursday. Still according to IMD World Competitiveness 2024 data, for other sectors, the average Indonesia is ranked 30, 40, and 50. Switzerland is in first place for the health sector, and the second position is occupied by Sweden. Meanwhile, Singapore is in the 28th position and Malaysia ranks 42nd.

According to Jokowi, the main capital is to create human resources, one of which is from the aspect of health and education. With superior human resources, Indonesia can have competitiveness with other countries. "Infrastructure is as good as possible if human resources are not good, ugly, later ranked visible," he said.