Airlangga Hartarto: Government Continues To Accelerate Digital Talent Creation

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto emphasized that the government continues to accelerate the creation of new digital talents and the development of a digital-based economy.

"Various efforts have been made by the Government to accelerate the creation of new digital talent and the development of a digital-based economy has been carried out through improving digital infrastructure, training, issuing regulations, providing the MSME ecosystem, and providing financing," said Airlangga in an official statement received in Jakarta, Sunday.

Airlangga said that the development of the digital economy in Indonesia is currently still a challenge. The need for infrastructure, human resources, digital literacy, regulation and mindset is very important for Indonesia to increase the use of technology in order to build a strong digital economy.

By 2022, technology adoption is expected to grow rapidly and the industry's further transformation will lead to “Society 5.0 or Society of intelligence” where physical space and cyberspace will be tightly integrated. The boom of new technologies such as Metaverse, Blockchain, NFT, and Web 3.0 will also become a new trend in every line of people's lives.

"Therefore, the young generation in our country must have started to prepare to start mastering the various skills needed in these fields," he said.

Furthermore, Airlangga said that acceleration in improving the quality of human resources would require coordination and synergy with all parties. So the concept of pentahelix development in which elements of the government, society or community, university academics, entrepreneurs, and the media unite to build togetherness in development is the key.

Given the importance of human resources as the main capital for national development, Airlangga Hartarto added that the government is also committed to improving the quality of Indonesian human resources through the 2022 state budget, namely by providing an education budget that reaches Rp542.8 trillion.