Conglomerate Chairul Tanjung's Striking Phrases For Instant Crazy Rich: Many People Are Looking For Quick Rich Shortcuts By Playing Binomo

Conglomerate Chairul Tanjung. (Screenshot of CNBC Indonesia Economic Outlook/Mary Handayani)

JAKARTA - The COVID-19 pandemic has changed people's lives and the way they transact. The physically-based sector of the economy was significantly impacted. Digital transformation is also considered a necessity during this COVID-19 pandemic.

Founder and Chairman of CT Corp, conglomerate Chairul Tanjung (CT) said that the digital transformation that had been running slowly and normally has suddenly become very fast due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is growing exponentially. Those who are unwilling or unable to transform will certainly not win in the competition.

Furthermore, CT said that this has made social inequality even greater in society. So the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

"As a consequence, many people are looking for shortcuts to fulfill their daily needs. We know that there are many names of illegal loans or online loans that are illegal, unregistered, or fraudulent investments such as trading robots, and what has recently been widely discussed is Binomo", he said during the CNBC Indonesia Economic Outlook program, Tuesday, March 22.

"And many more things that make no sense are sought by the public as shortcuts", he continued.

According to CT, this causes the K-shape phenomenon to occur. Where there are sectors that benefit and some are disadvantaged. Digital-related sectors benefit as well as community groups called white collars or the upper class.

"We know that the tourism sector has been greatly affected, we know that the transportation sector has been greatly affected. We know that community groups, especially those in MSMEs, are also affected tremendously and community groups which in economic terms are called blue collars or low-income groups", he said.