The Presidential Decree Of The Indonesian Game Industry Will Be Created

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YOGYAKARTA The government plans to issue special regulations related to the game industry in the country. The rules themselves are in the form of the Presidential Decree of the game industry regarding the National Game Industry Development Acceleration Program to Support the Development of the Domestic Game Ecosystem. Then what are the contents of the Presidential Regulation (Perpres)?

Plt. Assistant Deputy for Creative Economy Development of the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Kemenko Marves), Liz Zeny Merry explained that the Perpres Game in Indonesia was prepared because the online game industry in the country has great potential.

In addition, Liz also revealed that the game market in Indonesia is predicted to reach billions of US dollars.

"Based on Newzoo's research, the Indonesian game market is predicted to reach 2.5 billion US dollars (around Rp. 39.3 trillion) and the mobile gaming market globally reaches 125 billion US dollars (around Rp. 1,965 trillion) in 2025," explained Liz at the IGDX Conference 2023 held at The Stones Hotel, Bali, Friday, September 13.

Later the Presidential Decree will regulate the seven pillars that focus on developing the game ecosystem in Indonesia, namely as follows.

The potential of the gaming industry in Indonesia itself is quite large. This was acknowledged by the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy which said that the revenue value of the country's game industry or game application reached IDR 25 trillion in 2022.

"This national game market is IDR 25 trillion in 2022," explained the Director of Game, Television and Radio Applications at the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Iman Santosa, quoted from Antara, October 17.

According to him, Indonesia's game industry is very profitable with its revenue figure reaching IDR 25 trillion. The money was spent by game players. Unfortunately, 99.5 percent of this income flows to countries that are providers of game applications. Meanwhile, the income of domestic game industry players was only recorded at 0.5 percent.

To take advantage of the potential of the game's creative industry, the Government then made a Presidential Regulation which it hoped could be implemented starting in 2024.

With this Perpres, said Iman, it is able to encourage additional game creative industry players so that in the future they can take the potential for income which is greater than IDR 25 trillion.

The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy will target to be able to reach 70 percent in 2024 from the achievement of game industry revenue at the national level, so next year it will not only get 0.5 percent.

"We made a Presidential Decree on how to develop the national gaming industry, which was 0.5 percent, in 2024 it could add 70 percent, in one year at least it could increase, not only 0.5 percent," he said.

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