Sri Mulyani's Subordinates: Finance Profession Plays An Important Role In Economic Recovery

JAKARTA - The government through the Deputy Minister of Finance (Wamenkeu) Suahasil Nazara said that a professional financial profession can play an important role in accelerating economic recovery and providing support towards a Golden Indonesia in 2045.

"This is our belief. We believe that the financial profession in charge of the financial sector in Indonesia will bring Indonesia to be more advanced in the future," he said during a virtual speech at the 2021 Finance Profession Expo, Monday, October 11.

According to the Deputy Minister of Finance, economic recovery cannot be carried out by only one financial profession, but a synergy of the financial profession is needed to continue to create collaborations both between the financial profession and between the financial profession and regulators.

"I hope that the corridor of professionalism, the corridor of integrity, the corridor of sustainability, the corridor of accountability and also the corridor is good to maintain public trust in our financial sector," he said.

The representative from Sri Mulyani assessed that the role of the financial profession was very important in the process of economic recovery. For this reason, financial professionals in making regulations, guidance and protocols in the financial sector must be able to understand and incorporate how the regulations are made to support the recovery process and are not procyclical.

"I hope that my friends who are in the accounting profession, appraiser profession, actuarial profession and later customs, this tax consultant can understand how important it is for us to push economic recovery together and we are together in the corridor of governance, corridor of governance, corridor of transparency, accountability corridor can promote economic recovery. This is a desire that we feel we must do in the future, “explained the Deputy Minister of Finance.

For information, to date, there are more than 40,000 financial professions under the regulation of the Ministry of Finance, ranging from registered accountants, public accountants, public appraisers, public actuaries, tax consultants, customs experts, to class 2 auction officials.