Anies Wants Young People To Take A Role In Building Agriculture

Presidential Candidate Anies Baswedan arrived at Djalaluddin Airport, Gorontalo Province, Monday (8/1/2024). ANTARA/HO-Timnas AMIN

Presidential Candidate (candidate) Anies Baswedan said the government must seriously build a sustainable agricultural system in order to increase national food power in the future.

With the sustainable development of agricultural systems and the country fully supports, according to Anies, the sustainability of domestic food production will be achieved, and will attract more millennial and next generation Z.

"One of the indications that the agricultural sector is growing and has the prospect is when young people choose to enter and work there, meaning they have prospects and they choose to enter a place that has a future. They will not take a role for those who have no future, it's very simple," said Anies in Gorontalo, Monday, January 8.

One way to develop it is by providing agricultural contracts or farming, plus a regular supply of fertilizers and diesel. These two things, said Anies, will increase the interest of future generations to want to become farmers.

"The indicators of success in the arrangement of the agricultural sector are young people who want to become farmers, not because they are asked by the government or asked by their parents, but because they realize that this is the future sector," said the Governor of DKI Jakarta for the 2017 '2022 period.

Anies emphasized that it is very important for the government to think about the agricultural sector with a sustainability system so that it is not only thinking about developing today, but to prepare the main actors to manage agricultural land.

"As long as the agricultural sector is not taken seriously, it will not be a prospect sector. Even though the statistics are good, if it is not sustainable, young people do not want to be there," said Fery Farhati's husband.