OIKN: The Financial Center In IKN Creates New Economic Growth Opportunities

Deputy for Funding and Investment at OIKN Agung Wicaksono Agung. (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Deputy for Funding and Investment at OIKN Agung Wicaksono said that financial center development (financial center) in IKN could create new economic growth opportunities in other regions. "It doesn't mean that a new financial center (in Jakarta) will no longer work, it can still be because of the increased economic growth opportunities. That's why the capital city of Nusantara we create economic growth elsewhere so that there is equity," Agung said as quoted from ANTARA, Monday, December 11. Agung explained that currently the plan for detailing financial central spatial planning at IKN has existed. However, a plan to build urban design guideline. Once the urban design guideline is completed, OIKN will make an investment package to be offered to investors. After obtaining investors, it will continue with the negotiation process, study, cooperation, cooperation. After going through these processes, the first stone or groundbreaking will only be carried out. In developing a financial central development plan at IKN, OIKN attracts the Shenzhen Government, a city in China designed to become an Exclusive Economic Zone by the Chinese Government. "Shenzen is one model suitable for Nusantara because Shenzen 40 years ago is also a quiet fishing village, the population is not up to 300 thousand," said Agung. "But now he is the third largest city in China and he is the 9th largest financial center in the world within about 20-30 years from zero they succeeded in producing a financial center," he said. The financial center in IKN is a project that was begun to be developed last June by the Financial Services Authority (OJK) based on PP No. 12 of 2023, which made it easy to invest universally in IKN. Later, the financial center area with an extensive project of 17,000 hectares will have a wide scope where it covers the sustainability center, commodity center, Islamic financial center, the center of the venture, insurance center, and the Real Estate Investment Fund Center (Dire).

Deputy Director of Digitalization of the Financial and Banking Transformation Center of OJK, Zulkifli Salim, said that his party encouraged the banking sector to enter the IKN financial center first because it could attract business and other financial sector players to do the same.

According to Zulkifli, there is already interest from banks to enter IKN. He said the physical construction of the financial center in IKN began in 2025 because currently the government is still focusing on building the Central Government Core Area (KIPP). "For the physical development itself, if we look at the master plan, the IKN Authority will start building 2025 physically, because now the government is focusing on KIPP," said Zulkifli.