Sandiaga Uno's Performance After Becoming A Minister: A New Breakthrough In The World Of Tourism

Menparekraf Sandiaga Uno (Source: Antara)

YOGYAKARTA - Many have asked about Sandiaga Uno's performance after becoming a minister. And his breakthrough proved to be a savior for Indonesian Tourism.

Entrepreneur and politician Gerindra Sandiaga Uno admitted that he had just recovered from COVID-19 until he was appointed by President Joko Widodo to carry out the mandate as Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy (Menparekraf) replacing Wishnutama Kusubandio.

"I have just finished recovering from the COVID-19 disease that I felt myself over the past two weeks," said Sandiaga Uno at the Veranda of Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, Tuesday, after the announcement and introduction of a new ministerial candidate by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) as quoted by VOI. from Between.

Sandiaga Uno's performance after becoming Minister

The Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy / Head of the Tourism and Creative Economy Agency Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno revealed that he would carry out three main ideas for Indonesian tourism.

"Our three main ideas are innovation, because we have to move quickly under the direction of the president and the vice president in one year there must be a 'quick win'," Sandiaga said at the State Palace in Jakarta, at that time.

The innovation was carried out in terms of infrastructure and everything related to tourism and the creative economy, culinary, 'fashion', and others.

"Second, adaptation. We must adapt to the current situation, namely COVID-19. One of the 'CHSEs' must be confirmed as a prerequisite for the revival of this sector," Sandiaga said.

"CHSE" is Cleanliness, Health, Safety, and Environment, which Wishnutama had previously disclosed.

"Finally, collaboration. We have to hold all parties together because this is a tough task, we must be concerned about the millions of jobs that are affected in the tourism sector and the creative economy," Sandiaga said.

Sandiaga admitted that he would fight to maintain and develop empowerment.

"So that we can open the widest possible job opportunities and maintain the level of income and welfare of the community, especially in the tourism sector and the creative economy," Sandiaga said.

Sandiaga carries the concept of culture-based tourism

One of Sandiaga Uno's performances after becoming Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, he has a concept in running and developing tourism in the country. He is of the view that culture-based tourism will develop massively in the country.

"I just had a discussion with anthropologists. In Indonesia there are still many tourist spots that have not been managed and their potential has not been utilized to create jobs and increase the income of the surrounding community," he said, quoted from his Instagram social media page, which was uploaded December 11. .

Sandiaga said that what the government was doing by encouraging the 10 'New Bali' destinations was very good. But according to him, after COVID-19, we could no longer rely on just 10 New Bali, but other cultural-based destinations should also be encouraged.

"We can no longer rely solely on the 10 New Bali, but must be 100 destinations on a cultural basis," he said.

The former Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta said that culture-based tourism must be developed into an industry. However, it is not an industry whose connotations are manufacturing. But it is the industry that can create jobs and drive the economy.

"Because here on the cultural side, on the artistic side. There is no robotics. There is no artificial intelligence or machine learning that can compete with our strengths in this culture-based economy," he said.

"So I'm very optimistic and I think we can have a very exciting future in the tourism industry if we focus on this kind of culture-based tourism," he said.