Jokowi Desires Growing Economy in Secluded RI Areas

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Indonesian President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo is particularly ambitious about Asean Economic Community and therefore he intends to continually encourage local statesmen and businesspeople to maximize their potential and take this opportunity more seriously to bring the nation’s position at the forefront within South East Asian region.

Despite his high hopes on domestic actors, President Jokowi believes that the country’s leading figures ought to continue to develop, revise and improve their sense of competitiveness so that they will be able to help nation to flourish in an increasingly competitive regional market and for the archipelago state to attain and maintain key player position at that particular level.

As he witnessed the signing of 12 infrastructure contracts in accordance to the 2016 national budget, President Jokowi requested for Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan to assure that the nation’s mode of transportations have all been prepared along with logistic needs.

This is because in competing at the regional scale, the country ought to show that it does not conduct anything unprepared and that it needs to show its professional gesture.

“We have to be totally prepared in terms of our ships and vessels for movement of both passengers and goods. Price of logistics must be lowered as we target movement from one province to another, one city to another and so on. That is of course for the sake of revealing our nation’s ability to compete,”President Jokowi stated earlier today, Monday (18/1/2016).

Additionally, President Jokowi also went to instruct Minister Ignasius Jonan to concentrate more on developing infrastructures for mode of transportation movements in secluded and isolated areas. This is done to assure that their economy is growing just like in any other developed areas within Indonesian region.