Support IIPC, Kemenpan RB Wants To Stimulate Japanese Investment In RI

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform (Kemenpan RB) visited the Indonesia Investment Promotion Center (IIPC) Office in Tokyo, Japan.

Visits are carried out as an effort to ensure that public services run well and continue to be encouraged to be responsive in order to increase investment, one of which is through the use of digitalization.

"I think it's good, this office doesn't have many employees, but how can the control of each of these people with systems and technology optimize their services," said Secretary of the Kemenpan RB Rini Widyantini quoting Antara.

To note, IIPC Tokyo is the representative office of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) abroad.

Rini said that the President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo asked that bureaucratic reform have a real impact on the community. For this reason, Kemenpan RB has made increasing investment one of the focuses of bureaucratic reform thematics.

Thematic bureaucratic reform is to strengthen the focus of bureaucratic reform designed by the Kemenpan RB so that bureaucratic work is not only administrative in nature, but has a direct impact on the community. There are four themes in thematic bureaucratic reform, namely poverty alleviation, increasing investment, digitizing public services, and controlling inflation and using domestic products.

Lebih lanjut dijelaskan bahwa transformasi investasi akan tetap menjadi prioritas Presiden Jokowi, dan BKPM menjadi panjang layanan publik yang menjadi salah satu fokus Kemenpan RB.

IIPC Tokyo is the entry point for investment from Japan and the State of the Micronesian Federation to Indonesia. For this reason, he hopes that IIPC will become the vanguard for investment abroad that can provide the best service to attract investors from Japan.

"The presence of IIPC will greatly help provide information to prospective Japanese investors to Indonesia. If you want to ask questions about investment, you don't need to come to this place, it's quite online. However, the office is here and if you want to come, an investment clinic has been prepared. This is quite good and must continue to be improved," he said.

Based on data from the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM), Japanese investment in Indonesia throughout 2022 reached US$3.56 billion or around Rp55 trillion, ranked fourth largest behind Singapore, China, and Hong Kong. In the last decade, 2012 2022, there were a total of 35,013 Japanese investment projects in Indonesia.

"In 2023 we will enter 65 years of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Japan, and this is a momentum to continue to spur Japanese investment in the country," said Rini.

As part of the representative of the Republic of Indonesia, continued Rini, IIPC needs to be increased in its integration with other fields, such as collaboration in the investment sector with trade and industry.

He gave an example of one program that can be related to is the integration of providing investment facilities to encourage export-oriented industries or business actors.

In addition, the integration of digital services in the field of economics (investment, trade, and industry) also needs attention. This goes hand in hand with digital transformation which plays a role in improving services based on user needs (user centric).

"IIPC must also continue to be supported to attract new investments from Japan, including for the development of the Nusantara State Capital and business sectors related to new and renewable energy to realize carbon net zero emissions in the future," said Rini.

In this monitoring activity, Rini assessed that IIPC is very efficient, considering that there are not many buildings with large human resources, but are able to provide optimal services.

It is hoped that this can continue to be improved in the future and will provide more convenience for potential investors.