Anies Baswedan: Without Collaboration Jakarta Will Be Stagnant

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan/YouTube screenshot

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said collaboration is important in building his city. Without cooperation, development can become stagnant.

He conveyed this when giving a speech at the Jakarta Celebration Night to commemorate the 495th Anniversary of DKI Jakarta at the Jakarta International Stadium, Saturday, June 25 evening.

"If we don't collaborate, we will stagnate. Even though people have ideas, they have ideas," said Anies in his speech.

Anies said that collaboration was his priority in building Jakarta. The reason is that the city he leads is different from other provinces because there are many institutions that he can work with.

"This collaboration makes us continuously make breakthroughs. Why does Jakarta use collaboration? No other city in Indonesia has a private sector like Jakarta, as many universities as Jakarta, as many think-tanks as Jakarta, as many international development institutions as Jakarta, as many NGOs as Jakarta. All of them are centered in Jakarta," he said.

With this condition, Anies then said that collaboration is very much needed. "They bring experience, creativity, bring networking. We have the authority, we have the fiscal power to work together," he said.

"Hopefully with collaboration, innovation in Jakarta will continue because with collaboration there will be more ideas for Jakarta residents and we will work on them," continued Anies.

As previously reported, Anies said that Jakarta had begun to improve since he was under his leadership. There are a number of international standard facilities that he built. The first is the facilities and infrastructure, including the stadium.

Not only that, Anies also mentioned other public facilities that have international standards. One of them is the sidewalk.

Next, Jakarta is also referred to as a global city because of the use of digital technology. At that time, Anies mentioned one application, namely Jakarta Kini (JAKI) which had an international standard and he called it the best city service application in Southeast Asia.