JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokwoi) asked finalists and winners of the 2023 Puteri Indonesia event to play an active role and contribute to efforts to take advantage of the Indonesian demographic bonus which is expected to occur in 2030-2035.
President Jokowi conveyed this when giving a briefing to Puteri Indonesia 2023 Farhana Nariswari Wisandana from West Java and otherfinalists at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Monday, May 22.
"The President's message is for Puteri Indonesia, as part of a demographic bonus, to contribute and bring Indonesia to become a developed country with revenues above 25 thousand US dollars per capita in 2045," said Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno after accompanying the President at the meeting.
According to Sandiaga, the President emphasized the importance of the role of the younger generation to ensure that the demographic bonus can be converted in the next 13-15 years in order to make Indonesia a developed country.
The reason is, quite a number of countries have failed to leave their middle-income countries to developed countries or be hit by middle-income traps.
"(That's) because the younger generation did not make breakthroughs and innovations," said Sandiaga.
Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Puteri Indonesia Foundation as well as Member of the Presidential Advisory Council, Putri Kus Wisnu Wardani, who was also present at the meeting stated that President Jokowi emphasized the importance of leadership formed through the 2024, 2029, and 2034 elections, to determine whether Indonesia could become a developed country or be trapped in a middle income trap.
"Of course this inspires young people to be more critical," said Putri.
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Putri added that her party also continues to actively strive to encourage Indonesian women to become superior human resources (HR) to welcome demographic bonuses.
The Puteri Indonesia Foundation provides S1 or S2 scholarships according to the choice of each major for the 45 finalists for the 2023 Puteri Indonesia event.
"Then the three winners received scholarships from the University of Indonesia to take the S1, S2, or S3. So it is indeed the commitment of the Puteri Indonesia Foundation to encourage Indonesian women to become superior human resources, to fill in the demographic bonus towards Indonesia Gold 2045," he said.
In addition to the winners of Puteri Indonesia 2023, they were also present to receive a briefing from President Jokowi, namely the first runners-up as well as the 2023 Indonesian Tourism Puteri, Yasinta Aurellis, from Lampung and the second runners-up or Puteri Indonesia Environmental 2023, Lulu Zaharani Krisna, from Lampung.
Miss Supranational 2022 Lalela Mswane from South Africa and Miss Charm 2023 Luma Russo from Brazil were also present.
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