President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) ensures that young Papuans can make a big leap for Indonesia’s creative economy industry.
He conveyed this when inaugurating the opening of the Papua Street Carnival around the Jayapura Governor’s Office area, on Friday (7/7/2023) morning.
“How come the packaging of Papuan products, be it coffee, smoked fish, and other products related to designer fashion, is really a very visible leap. Very good designs packaged in packaging with very well-designed brands,” he said as quoted via the Presidential Secretariat Youtube, Friday (7/7/2023).
Then, the number one person in Indonesia is also proud of the work of young people who are members of the Papua Youth Creative Hub (PYCH) assisted by the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) who are constantly innovating through the TOP.ID brand, which has launched cellphone and laptop service services for Papuan people.
“This was done not in western Indonesia but in eastern Indonesia, namely in the Land of Papua. It’s a leap and we’ll see what the nation’s children are doing in the creative industry in Papua,” Jokowi concluded. The Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy (Menparekraf) Sandiaga Uno admitted that since the inauguration of PYCH (Papua Youth Creative Hub) in the last 3 months there have been many creative economy agendas (ekraf) present in the Heaven from the East.
In fact, the cadre of the United Development Party (PPP) also believes that from holding the Papua Street Carnival and the creative agenda in the past 3 months, they have been able to reap a total income of Rp. 2.6 billion. since the inauguration of PYCH, many creative events have attended, starting from the Papua Coffee Expo with 6,000 visitors, 4 days of Expo and launching activities, and total revenue for 3 months can be over IDR 2.6 billion,” he added.
Sandi also reported that since its inauguration, PYCH’s work has made a variety of products ranging from assembling cellphones which have sold 215 units of cellphones, assembling laptops with the Torang Papua Indonesia brand (TOP.ID) with requests for more than 100 units, to digital printing capable of serving 1,000 order within 4 days. For your information, the third day of the Head of State’s working visit to Papua Island, Friday (7/7/2023) after inaugurating the Papua Street Carnival which was held in the Papua Governor’s Office area, Jayapura City, was to visit Pharaa Market, Jayapura Regency, to inspect prices of a number of food commodities and distributing assistance to traders. Later, ending the series of activities in Papua, President Jokowi is scheduled to conduct an inspection at Waibu Agro Ecotourism, Jayapura Regency.