Anies Calls Apindo Dialogue An Opportunity For Entrepreneurs To Compare The Figure Of The 2024 Presidential Candidate

Candidate for President of the Republic of Indonesia Anies Baswedan during a dialogue at an event held by Apindo in Jakarta, Monday (11/12/2023). BETWEEN/Good Ahmad Rizaldi

Presidential Candidate (candidate) number one, Anies Baswedan said the Apindo Dialogue activity with the organizers of the Indonesian Employers' Association (Apindo) was an event for entrepreneurs to compare presidential candidates in the 2024 presidential election. Through this opportunity, according to Anies, entrepreneurs can provide rational assessments of the presidential candidates. At the event, Anies became the first presidential candidate to attend the dialogue. "This opportunity, Apindo invites the candidates to express their thoughts, ideas," said Anies after filling the dialogue in Jakarta, Monday, December 11, was confiscated by Antara. In the dialogue, Anies explained a number of topics ranging from the economy that need to realize a sense of justice, the role of entrepreneurs to improve people's welfare, to efforts to create a conducive and transparent business climate. According to him, the dialogue can also be used as an event to see the track records of the presidential candidates, ranging from traces of ideas, traces of works, to traces of achievements. Thus, this can be used by entrepreneurs who are members of Apindo to predict Indonesia in the future. "The question in the dialogue that was conveyed was a question that provoked us to reveal the plans that exist in our vision and mission," he said.

Apart from Anies, there are two other presidential candidates who are planned to attend. Ganjar Pranowo is scheduled to attend at 14.00 WIB, while Prabowo Subianto is scheduled to attend 19.00 WIB. Meanwhile, Apindo Chairman Shinta Widjaja Kamdani explained that the activity was Apindo's contribution in carrying out the role of advocacy through the submission of the 2024 Apindo Economic Roadmap — 2029 to all candidate national leaders. Shinta Widjaja said that the preparation of the Apindo Economic Roadmap ahead of the leadership transition was in order to identify obstacles, submit recommendations for policy changes, to institutions and governance for the next 5 years. "Therefore, the Apindo Economic Roadmap is also a kind of guideline for the new government in the agenda of economic transformation," said Shinta. Previously, the General Elections Commission (KPU) on Monday, November 13, 2023, determined three candidates (paslon) for presidential and vice-presidential candidates in the 2024 presidential election. The results of the draw and determination of the number of participants for the 2024 presidential election on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, the pair Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar number 1, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka number 2, and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud Md. serial number 3. The KPU has also set a campaign period from November 28, 2023 to February 10, 2024, then the voting schedule will be on February 14, 2024.