Ketum Apindo Shinta Kamdani: Elected Indonesian Leaders Must Improve Business Certainty

Chairman of the Indonesian Employers' Association (Apindo) Shinta W Kamdani. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Employers' Association (Apindo) Shinta Widjaja Kamdani hopes that the Indonesian leader elected in the 2024 General Election (Pemilu) will be able to increase certainty in doing business. "Our hope is that anyone who will definitively become the leader of the nation, there is an increased certainty of doing business through the consistency of the implementation of economic policies," said Shinta, quoted from Antara, Thursday, February 15. He also hopes that the transitional period of government in the future can also be carried out smoothly as well as the minimum politicization of economic policies. Judging by the results of quick vote calculations, he continued, the pairs of presidential candidates (candidates) and vice presidential candidates (cawapres) number 02 namely Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka are superior to other candidates. If the results of the official vote recapitulation of the General Election Commission (KPU) on February 15 to March 20 are not much different from the results of quick calculations, the election will last one round. Thus, he projects that it will have a positive effect on political stability, legal certainty, certainty of the economic direction that is supported by the certainty of the elected country leader. However, the election of two rounds has large economic and political costs, while market players and investors need certainty in taking investment decisions as well as running business,'' he said.

Dengan ada kepastian, menurut wanita yang juga menjabat sebagai Wakil Ketua Kamar Dagang dan Industri Indonesia (Kadin) ini, mampu meminimalisir risiko pelarian modal (capital flight) serta keluarnya dana asing dari pasar keuangan.Sementara itu, tambah dia, proses pemilu yang damai, adil, dan jujur turut berperan dalam sentimen pasar karena pesta demokrasi Indonesia mendapat sorotan dari dunia internasional sebagai negara demokrasi terbesar ke-3 dunia.Karenanya, proses demokrasi Indonesia perlu dibuktikan dengan realisasi bahwa Indonesia merupakan negara yang dapat dipercaya sebagai rekan usaha atau investasi.