Jokowi And German Chancellor Angela Merkel To Open The Hannover Messe 2021 Event

President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo. (Photo: Doc. Setkab)

JAKARTA - Indonesia is participating as the Official Partner Country at the Hannover Messe 2021 Digital Edition 2021. President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is scheduled to open the industrial technology exhibition. The opening will be held with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said the opening of the exhibition will be held on April 12, 2021. Meanwhile, the event will last until April 16.

The Hannover Messe in Hannover, Germany is the world's largest industrial technology exhibition which in 2021 will be held completely digitally. The new digital format adapts to current conditions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"It is hoped that with the Hannover Messe, which is opened digitally and the exhibition is fully digital, now Indonesia is also expected to become an official partner in a physical or hybrid (mixed) manner", he said after a limited meeting with President Jokowi and several ministers, quoted from YouTube Presidential Secretariat, Monday, April 5.

Airlangga said, from the results of the curation, 156 participants had been selected for the Hannover Messe 2021 event. They consisted of large, small, medium scale companies, startups, industrial estates, industrial associations, BUMN, as well as ministries and institutions.

In the Hannover Messe 2021 Digital Edition event this time, the Government of Indonesia carries the theme "Making Indonesia 4.0" and "Tagline Connect to Accelerate". The aim is to encourage synergy to be formed to support the growth of industry 4.0 in Indonesia.

For your information, in the Hannover Messe series of events, the government has also prepared several collaborations in the industrial sector, both in the framework of government to government (G to G) and business to business (B to B).

The Hannover Messe 2021 Digital Edition will feature digitization of product presentations, various conference themes, and software-based business matchmaking to directly represent a breakthrough, an innovation in an exhibition of industrial solutions technology.

The Ministry of Industry held a series of pre-seminars for the Hannover Messe 2021 from 5 to 9 April 2021. This activity aims to prepare a series of organizing the Hannover Messe 2021 as well as providing information to the public about these activities.