By: Deka Prawira ) *
The Job Creation Law is a breakthrough for the Government in overcoming hyper regulation that inhibits investment. With the enactment of this policy, it is hoped that business actors will continue to develop and be able to maintain national economic resilience.
Sukma Sahadewa as the administrator of the Indonesian Advocates Association (Peradi) for the City of Surabaya assessed that national economic resilience is a powerful key to bringing Indonesia out of the economic recession due to the Covid-19 pandemic and furthermore to create conditions for national economic sovereignty.
In an online seminar entitled to dissect the opportunities and challenges of the Digital economy in the Job Creation Law held by the Alumni Association of the Indonesian Defense Forces ToT / Taplai KBS Batch III Sukma explained, economic resilience can be realized by mutually supportive processes between the government and business actors.
He explained that the government cannot stand alone, there needs to be a role for entrepreneurs. Business actors also cannot move on their own, there needs to be support from the Government in various matters, especially regulation and capital.
Sukma continued, one form of government support for business actors was the issuance of Law no. 11/2020 concerning Job Creation. This law is considered to support domestic business actors in the context of facilitating business-related regulations.
This Job Creation Law speeds up and simplifies the licensing process. The convoluted bureaucracy can also be overcome with the regulations contained in this Omnibus Law. Of course this is very helpful for business actors.
With the existence of the Job Creation Law, Sukma said that the government not only supports business actors in the context of creating jobs, but also to improve worker protection.
He continued, Sukma explained, there were five important roles of entrepreneurs in the Indonesian economy, especially in the resilience of the national economy. First, opening new jobs to minimize unemployment; second, to attract investors, thereby increasing the country’s foreign exchange.
Furthermore, namely forming and increasing gross domestic product (GDP); he continued to maximize the use of technology and resources and reduce poverty and become one of the sources of the country’s economy through taxes.
In carrying out this role, business actors can increase the potential of natural resources (SDA) and human resources (HR). Regarding HR, its role is in the form of creating jobs, exploring the potential of local human resources or increasing skills and building professionalism and increasing skills so that they can compete with foreign workers (TKA).
So that in the future there will be no more companies that employ foreign workers, only our human resources that we have trained, certified and have good skills.
As for the role of business actors in economic resilience related to increasing the potential of natural resources, this is in the form of utilizing natural resources as well as possible for the welfare of the community, preserving the environment and increasing the potential of natural resources.
Apart from the Job Creation Law, so far, the government has issued various policies that support business actors, in the form of KUR and so on. This is intended so that micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) can level up and be more optimal.
Previously, the expert staff for Regulation, Law Enforcement and Economic Resilience of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs Elen Setiadi explained the importance of the Job Creation Law, one of which is to encourage economic transformation to spur faster economic growth, so that Indonesia can get out of the middle income trap so that Indonesia can get out of the trap of middle-income countries.
Not only that, Elen also explained the urgency of why the Job Creation Law was needed. According to him, this is to take advantage of the current demographic bonus.
According to him, currently Indonesia has a population of more than 260 million people and will continue to increase until 2045 to 319 million people. According to him, of this number there will be 52% of productive age, of which 75% live in urban areas and 80% will have middle income. Thus Indonesia will become the fourth largest economic power in the world.
Another urgency is to defend and provide employment. According to Elen, this is still necessary considering that Indonesia still has a high unemployment rate and the population who work non-formally is still high.
The government has also been aggressively visiting several cities to absorb public input and responses to the derivative regulations.
Therefore, this Job Creation Law needs to get support from the community because it can maintain the resilience of the national economy.
) * The author is a contributor to the Cikini Press Circle and Students
