Jokowi Wants His Ministers To Be Able To Read Global Changes

President Joko Widodo visited the Grand Indonesia shopping center (Photo: BPMI Setpres/Muchlis Jr)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo asked the ministers of the Indonesia Maju cabinet to make quick policies in responding to changes in the world.

"At most it is important that we must respond quickly to every change in the world. We also do policies from fast reading the dynamics that exist in the world," said President Joko Widodo at the State Palace in Jakarta, Monday, January 16 at the inaugural Plenary Cabinet Session in 2023.

"Today is the first plenary cabinet session in 2023. I want to return to 2022 first. Alhamdullilah, I see a lot of positive achievements amidst external pressures, amidst global concerns that pose a risk threat to all countries and the year of turbulence in 2022, we went through well with economic growth in the third quarter of 2022 of 5.72 percent," explained the President.

President Jokowi estimates that Indonesia's economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2022 will be at 5.2 or 5.3 percent.

"If we look at the inflation side, we can control it at 5.5 percent, this is also a very good achievement and I ask that it also continue to suppress this inflation," added the President.

In addition to using monetary instruments at Bank Indonesia, the President also asked the Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian so that regions can participate together in suppressing inflation so that it can be suppressed as little as possible.

"Then, Alhamdullilah's state revenue also grew 30.36 percent and we hope that by 2023 we will also be in a difficult year position. This is a test year for all countries in the world, because of the very high geopolitical pressure, the world economy will weaken especially big countries such as the European Union, China, the United States (US), I think it is expected to weaken all of them," said the President.

Even though these countries are the Indonesian export market, the President asked the ministers to also continue to be careful.

"And the projected world economic growth also decreased from the previous figure of 2.9 down, down, and down again and now projected only 1.7 percent. This is a projection from the World Bank, so this is a challenge for us," said the President.

President Jokowi hopes that exports and investments in Indonesia can grow better in 2023.

"Then we will also continue to strengthen downstreaming because this will have a broad impact on job opportunities for our people and will also increase foreign exchange for the country," said the President.