Ganjar Wants To Develop Hetero Space Throughout Indonesia

Presidential Candidate Ganjar Pranowo/ANTARA/Sumarwoto

PURWOKERTO - Presidential candidate number 3 Ganjar Pranowo stated that he wanted to develop a hetero space throughout Indonesia as a gathering place for creative economy actors as well as those in Purwokerto, Banyumas Regency, Central Java.

"This is the hetero space that we once made. This hetero space time I am still the governor, the youngest after Semarang, Solo, this is the third," said Ganjar after attending the Gathering with MSME Actors at Hetero Space Banyumas, Purwokerto, Banyumas Regency, as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, January 9.

He admitted that the location of the Hetero Space Banyumas, which occupied the former Regional Coordinating Board (Bakorwil) III Banyumas-Purwokerto building, was relatively large.

According to him, the construction of the HeteroSpace Banyumas originated from the suggestion of young people who wanted the building to be made as a coworking area that could be used together and managed by them.

After the Hetero Space Banyumas opened, he said, it turned out that there were a lot of training made for MSME players and cooperatives.

"It was touching for me when the mother who sold it was like a small fish, she said Mr. Ganjar was there first, then we endorsed it, the sales rose by 200 percent. It was fun," he said.

Even when the MSME product packaging was deemed not good, he said, then the perpetrator came to Hetero Space Banyumas to consult, now the packaging is getting better.

In addition, managerially, he continued, MSME actors have begun to understand how to manage money.

"Where is the debt money, which is for production, which is for the needs of the family, they can already calculate it. This means that actually, it takes places to gather creative people who will make an initial business, startup, or then develop an already running business, a place like this becomes important," he explained.

According to him, the collaboration of experts facilitated by the space hetero manager will make MSME players grow and advance to class.

Ganjar admits that if he is elected as president in the future, the hetero space program will be brought to the national level.

"Yesterday there were additional wishes, yes, for example, for the time being they are producing the real sector, but there are artists, maybe they will play music, they dance, they may write, I think that's important, including recording," he said.

He said that Hetero Space Banyumas could develop considering the room is quite large and the facilities are added, so that creative groups can train in that place.

"And if we develop almost all of Indonesia, it will be facilitated," he said.

Meanwhile, during the gathering, Ganjar had the opportunity to have a dialogue with a number of MSME actors, both those who had participated in the training program at Hetero Space Banyumas and those who had not followed it, including having a dialogue with one of the MSME actors he visited while still serving as Governor of Central Java.

Ganjar motivates MSME actors to continue to improve the quality of their products so that they can advance to class.