KOTAMOBAGU - presidential candidate number 1 Anies Baswedan explained the reason he wanted to form the Ministry of Culture so that it was separate from the field of education that had been protected in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Kemendikbudristek).
The plan to form a culture into a separate ministry was expressed in the fifth debate of the 2024 presidential election on Sunday, February 4 evening.
Anies assessed that so far the policy to budget allocation in the Ministry of Education and Culture has been carried out more in the education sector. This also happened when Anies served as Minister of Education and Culture (Mendikbud) for the 2014-2016 period.
"Indonesia has extraordinary cultural wealth. In our experience when managing the Ministry of Education and Culture, almost all of that resource attention is more in the field of education, than for its culture," explained Anies in Kotamobagu City, North Sulawesi, Monday, February 5.
Anies views that the government's attention in terms of culture will be more optimal if the field is managed in a separate institution.
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Anies did the same thing during his tenure as Governor of DKI Jakarta for the 2017-2022 period. Anies separated two regional work units (UKPD) from the original DKI Jakarta Tourism and Culture Office (Disparbud) to the Tourism and Creative Economy Office (Disparekraf) and the Culture Service (Disbud).
"The name tourism is commercial, which is not for commercial purposes. When it is built into a separate cultural service, it can immediately become a facilitator for all cultural activities," said Anies.
"Well, with this being a special place (ministerial), hopefully it can concentrate, there can be sufficient budget allocation, and can seriously handle the maintenance and development of our culture. So that he becomes a facilitator for the growth and development of Indonesian culture," he explained.
Previously, in the last debate at the Senayan JCC, Anies planned to form a cultural ministry if he was elected President of the Republic of Indonesia in 2024. According to Anies, the independent ministry of culture was not only able to care for Indonesian culture, but also develop it.
"We see that it needs to be formed and we plan a ministry of culture which will later become a resource distributor from the state to be given to cultural observers, so that they grow and develop to build extraordinary cultural works in Indonesia," he said.
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