Halalbihalal With Coordinating Minister For The Economy, Chairman Of Kadin Discuss Economic Challenges

Chairman of Kadin Arsyad Rasjid after attending a halalbihalal event at the official residence of Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto in South Jakarta, Thursday night (11/4/2024). (Between/Uyu Septiyati Liman)

Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce (Kadin) Arsyad Rasjid said that he discussed efforts to overcome economic challenges in the future when he visited the official residence of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto at the halalbihalal event on Thursday night.

"The economic problem going forward is also a lot of challenges. So how about Kadin and the government to be able to anticipate things together," said Arsyad in Jakarta, Thursday.

He said that the economic challenges in the future are very difficult, so that even though the new government regime changes will be carried out next October, economic problems must still be discussed from now on.

According to him, this is because domestic economic development must continue, especially to make local MSMEs advance to class.

"Because we are back again, (to overcome economic challenges) we must maintain how our MSMEs develop," Arsyad said as quoted by Antara.

He said that domestic MSME products are important to protect so that they are not less competitive with goods from abroad, which are now flooding the domestic market a lot.

Otherwise, he is worried that the local MSME business will weaken and result in the loss of many jobs.

Arsyad also stated that he did not come with any political mission even though Airlangga was the general chairman of the Golkar Party, which was one of the elected presidential and vice presidential coalition parties for the 2024 election, Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

"The point that I am running here is as the general chairman of Kadin. The focus now is on discussing economic problems," he said.