By: Ajeng Mufadillah
Joko Widodo’s Government wants to continue to increase Indonesia’s competitiveness in the global market with various policy breakthroughs. In 2018, Indonesia’s Global Competitiveness index increased.
The Joko Widodo government created a breakthrough policy, including incentives for economic actors, encouraging reform in various fields, building new economic centers, strengthening the national maritime axis, increasing productivity, and increasing human resource capacity.
In 2018 it became a turning point for national economic development, even though the global economy was in a vortex of uncertainty, economic growth was stable. Unemployment, poverty and inequality decrease. Controlled prices and careful management of state finances.
The results that have been achieved are Indonesia’s Global Competitiveness Index up to 45 in 2018 from 47 in 2017. In addition, Indonesia managed to rise in rank from non-investment-worthy countries in 2014 to a country with an investment rating according to 3 leading international rating agencies, namely by Moody’s, Fitch and Standard & Poor’s. Not satisfied until there, before President Joko Widodo also wanted to increase Indonesia’s competitiveness through the Batam area.
Jokowi said, we want Batam and its surroundings to have a strategic position that can be maximally developed so that it has competitiveness for the economy and attractiveness to investors.
President Jokowi added that it would need to be managed more professionally so that Batam became an economic area that we could really develop, especially for industrial centers. At the last moment of the President’s visit to Batam, the President saw his potential very much, but perhaps on the side of the speed of service the most were complaints in the field of land affairs.To increase competition in the face of global markets affected by the completeness of infrastructure. Equitable development throughout Indonesia is an effort to increase competitiveness that competes so that this nation is able to compete with other nations.