Stop Dependence On Imports, PKB Party: Indonesia Needs Technology And Science Production

Muhaimin Iskandar/PHOTO VIA ANTARA

JAKARTA - Chairman of the PKB Party, Muhaimin Iskandar, assesses that Indonesia needs to produce technology and science independently, especially in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is because Indonesia has always depended on other countries.

"Drugs, pharmaceuticals, vaccinations, vaccines themselves really depend on other countries. Because we are really powerless in developing technology and science in the health sector, especially", said Muhaimin in the National Speech at the 50th Anniversary of CSIS online, Thursday, August 19.

To be able to rise from adversity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he continued, the Indonesian government needed to re-setting politics and re-setting the economy.

According to Muhaimin, the government and the community need to be involved and participate to be able to move all activities, both political and economic.

"What we need to prepare well is that we have to produce our own technology and science. Like it or not, this must be done because of our great dependence on technology and science from other countries", said Cak Imin, his nickname.

Not to mention, continued Cak Imin, health access problems related to COVID-19. Where the public still has to be charged a fairly expensive fee for the purposes of antigen testing and PCR as a condition of travel and other interests. Although now the PCR test has dropped the tariff from IDR 495 thousand to IDR 525 thousand.

"The price is that everyone is powerless in anticipating a pandemic, which has actually happened for a long history. It should be science for our strategy to deal with situations like this", he said.

However, Cak Imin is confident and optimistic that Indonesia will become a developed country that is no longer dependent on other countries. Moreover, it is proclaimed that the homeland will become a just, prosperous and prosperous country in 2045.

"We have to prepare ourselves. So that we really have the common goal of building prosperity. By continuing to strengthen our ideological capabilities, our natural resource capacity, our human resource capacity", said Cak Imin.