Decision To Advance Presidential Candidates 20024, Jokowi Says Indonesia's Sustainability Is In Ganjar

President Jokowi shook hands with the Governor of Central Java Ganjar Pranowo. during Eid 2023 in Solo (doc: State Secretariat)

JAKARTA - Presidential candidate (candidate) number three, Ganjar Pranowo said he finally ran for the 2024 presidential election because he discussed with President Joko Widodo (Jokowi). At that time, he was referred to as a point of continuity. "I wanted to go forward to the presidential candidate for the discussion initially with Mr. Jokowi. I discussed together for a long time until one point it took sustainability and that was Ganjar," said Ganjar imitating Jokowi's statement in the discussion quoted from a written statement, Wednesday, December 6. Ganjar said there were several topics of discussion that both discussed. Among them are clean bureaucracy, downstreaming, economic growth, and how to make a breakthrough in the policy. "We discussed 2 years, I leaked it at this Habibie center," said the former Governor of Central Java. This discussion should be a sign for him to continue his downstream policy. So, Ganjar said that the news circulating that President Jokowi's program would not be followed up is not true, especially since the program was already running well even though it was just nickel which became a focus. However, there is still a lot to be done so that Indonesia does not only export raw nickel ore. Hilirization of nickel is the end of battery production, said Ganjar. Is it already up to battery? Not yet. So my task is to complete its downstream until the end to end must be completed, "he continued. In the future, Ganjar will also carry out downstreaming of agricultural, plantation, marine, and even digital industries.

"Maybe if our IT infrastructure is better, BTS is everywhere, then remote areas can access, maybe downstream the digital industry will be the first," he said. "Then the creative industry is running, maybe the economy will grow from this creative economy, and then we reduce the natural resources, maybe, so that we can save for our children and grandchildren later while the researchers prepare better things for us to manage it," concluded Ganjar.