National Digital Economy Will Reach 146 Billion US Dollars In 2025

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JAKARTA - The Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartarto, said that the digital valuation of Indonesia's economy has now reached US$70 billion, and is the highest in the Southeast Asia Region, with market share reaching 40 percent of the total valuation of ASEAN.

It is even believed that the valuation value will continue to grow to reach 146 billion dollars by 2025. "We must take advantage of the great potential of Indonesia's digital economy to improve shared welfare," said Airlangga, in his official statement, in Jakarta, as reported by Antara, Friday, March 18.

Meanwhile, in terms of digital talent in the future, according to Airlangga, in 2030 there will be around nine million digital Human Resources (HR) in Indonesia, which will be met by today's young generation.

The existence of these new digital talents, called Airlangga, will be able to accelerate the growth of entrepreneurs in Indonesia.

With digitalization, economic growth in 2022 is also targeted at 5.2 percent year on year can be achieved. strategy for economic recovery," said Airlangga. In the long term, Indonesia wants to be free from the middle class trap so it needs to create more jobs by increasing the number of entrepreneurs. Currently, the ratio of the number of Indonesian entrepreneurs is still low and is around 3.47 percent of the total population so that the development of MSMEs needs to be further supported and efforts to help these MSME actors to survive in the midst of a pandemic must also be carried out. productivity through a new paradigm that is periz risk-based services that are simpler, faster, and integrated," said Airlangga.