Minister Of Finance Sri Mulyani: Increase State Asset Sources By Competing

Minister of Finance, Sri Mulyani Indrawati. (Photo: Instagram @smindrawati)

JAKARTA - The State Asset Management Institute (LMAN) held The Asset Manager which is a competition between state asset managers in ministries, institutions, local governments, public service entities, as well as state/regional-owned enterprises that complain to compete, understanding and creativity in optimizing state assets.

For information, The Asset Manager is an annual LMAN activity aimed at building awareness and competence of asset users, especially State Property within the Ministry/Agency, Public Service Agency (BLU), Regional Government, and State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN), to realize the optimization of state assets, through planning and implementation of the concept of using the best assets.

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said Indonesia as an emerging country must continue to be able to explore resources to be able to improve development.

"One of them is to continue to increase the ability to generalize assets through creative financing", he explained in his official statement, Wednesday, October 18.

Sri Mulyani added that the management of state assets raises challenges that are very real, so it requires the ability and competence to optimize the use of assets that continue to be improved, one of which is carried out through the The Asset Manager competition.

Sri Mulyani hopes that with the innovation of management, the management will strengthen the function of state assets as a fiscal tool and produce various benefits both in terms of socio-economic and financial in the form of Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP) for the welfare of the community.

Meanwhile, LMAN President Director Basuki Purwadi hopes that The Asset Manager will become an important milestone and have a major impact on the implementation of optimization of state assets in all lines, including Ministries/Institutions, Regional Governments and SOEs.

"LMAN is always committed to improving competence in managing state assets, through synergy and collaboration to produce the maximum benefit for the community," he said.

Meanwhile, this year LMAN focuses the competition for The Asset Manager in managing assets in the Jakarta area, taking into account the national strategic plan to move the State Capital to the Archipelago.

Basuki conveyed that the case study that must be completed by the participants consisted of various state assets, both managed by LMAN and managed by agencies that are LMAN's advisory partners in the Jakarta area.

On the other hand, with the relocation of the capital city, the management of state assets, especially in Jakarta, requires human resources with creative and innovative ideas, so that abandoned state assets continue to generate added value and not become a fiscal burden in the future.