House of Representatives’ (DPR’s) deputy speaker Abdul Muhaimin Iskandar, in a written statement here, Tuesday, drew attention to three action plans to make Indonesia an advanced country by 2045.

“The action plan should be upheld to realize the mandate of the 1945 Constitution based on social justice,” he affirmed.

The action plan aims to ensure that all Indonesians have assets, wealth, businesses, and also a home, according to Iskandar.

Moreover, the action plan focuses on empowering all farmers and fishermen through the provision of business capital and work facilities.

The first action plan, named “Equal Indonesia,” is designed to reduce the wealth and income gap, the House deputy speaker noted.

Programs that should be developed are 30-percent stock ownership for employees and to ensure that all private enterprises are registered in Indonesia’s Stock Exchange (BEI).

“Land and farm concessions will be provided to social religious organizations, such as the NU and Muhammadiyah, as reported by President Jokowi,” he remarked.

“(In addition,) home subsidy will be offered to civil servants, military and police officers, as well as to all citizens, including Indonesian migrant workers,” he explained.

Moreover, work capital subsidy should be provided to farmers and fishermen, with zero-percent interest, as well as social, health, and manpower insurance for migrant workers and their families.

The second plan is called “Professional Indonesia” that is deemed crucial to enabling comprehensive improvement in Indonesia’s human resources.

This plan encompasses all development programs for boosting the quality of human resources, including focus on bolstering the pre-employment card program.

It also incorporates professional scholarship support under the Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) for all types of jobs in the science, research, sport, and art sectors.

“The Human Resources Development Law as well as partnership between the industry and vocational training center are also necessary,” Iskandar stressed.

The next action plan is “Indonesia Without Limit” that entails gathering all technological research and application development programs to create new technologies in order to reduce dependency on scientific and technological capital from the international market.

Several priority sectors covered by this step comprise renewable energy, hydrogen technology for electric vehicles and transportation energy, and farming product processor technology, such as for coffee, cacao, fish, and other natural resources.

“There should also be technology transfer for the production of health devices and medicines,” the deputy speaker emphasized.

Iskandar pressed to apply this action plan to free Indonesia from the middle income trap.

Source: Antara News