JAKARTA - Minister of Creative Economy (Minister of Creative Economy) Teuku Riefky Harsya encourages poetry so that it can have creative or commercial economic value.
"This poetry and poetry were part of the cultural heritage of our predecessors before social media. Poems were also used for social movements. Of course, it is very risky between culture and the creative economy," said Menekraf Riefky in an official statement in Jakarta, quoted by Antara, Sunday, April 27.
Previously, Menekraf Riefky received the Collective Committee for National Poem Day in Jakarta on Friday, April 25.
Menekraf welcomed the initiative of National Poem Day as a driver of creativity as well as an expression medium and commercial value.
"If culture must be conserved, while the creative economy has come into contact with science and technology so that it can accelerate its intellectual property," he continued.
Menekraf supports National Poem Day because poetry is an unlimited part of creativity.
According to him, the poetry that is read can also be included in the sub-sector of performing arts and poetry printed in the form of books can be classified as in the scope of issuance so that poetry also has creative or commercial economic value.
National Poem Day which was commemorated on April 28 has been declared by the Language Development and Development Agency in the National Deliberation of Indonesian Sastrawans. Usually, each region has its own way of organizing the celebration of National Poem Day.
As for this year, National Poem Day will raise the theme of the Spirit of the Malang Animal Insurgency. Later there will be a National Poem Day ceremony at Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM), Cikini, Jakarta to the musicalization of Chairil Anwar's Derai-Derai Cemara poem.
Fikar W Eda as the Initiator of National Poem Day, said that they (the singer) can only create poetry as a creative work, but have not been able to create poetry as part of the creative economy.
"The purpose of our arrival here is also to request the willingness of the Minister of Creative Economy to attend the National Poem Day later," said Fikar.
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In addition, the representatives of these literary activists also submitted the innovative concept of the Creative Coffee Garden Sengkewe so that the location would become a garden as well as a center for cultural education, arts and creative economy from the community connected to coffee farming in one integrated area.
"We want to encourage coffee plantations in Aceh to become creative space areas in the creation of arts and public education. There will be a routine performance art stage prepared with communities and theater 'workshops', musicalization of poetry, films, literature, dance, music, etc. We ask for guidance and direction from the Ministry of Creative Economy to move and get enlightenment for the development of all of that," said Fikar.
During the meeting, Minister Teuku Riefky was accompanied by Deputy for Media Creativity Agustini Rahayu and Director of Iman Santosa's Issuance and Photography.
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