Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati urged members of the younger generation to continually work towards honing their skills in a bid to help the government welcome Indonesia 2045.

“You need to have good skills, motivation, and character. You need to protect your heart,” Indrawati noted during the Ministry of Finance Festival (MOFEST) 2022 here Thursday.

“Fight. You cannot let Indonesia be controlled by bad people,” she remarked.

Indrawati estimated that the domestic population will reach 350 million people when Indonesia reaches its 100-year anniversary of its independence in 2045.

This projection of the population increase means that the government has to add several public facilities to help meet the people’s demand in 2045.

Members of the current younger generation should act quickly in improving their skills and knowledge, so that they can help the government in meeting that target.

Moreover, in 2045, the demographic composition is estimated to be dominated by the elderly population, thereby signalling the importance of several preparations that have to be considered and worked on starting from now.

This has to be done because if a country is dominated by the older generation but the people are not yet prosperous, then this will cause many other issues, both from the financial and health standpoint.

Indrawati then encouraged Indonesia’s younger generation to not be afraid to confront various challenges in life because every problem will feel taxing if one is not used to facing it.

Moreover, the younger generation will encounter even more complex challenges in future whether it is in the form of the pandemic, climate change, digital technology, geopolitics, or the food and financial crisis.

“Problems in the world seem complicated, difficult, and heavy but they are something that you need to start to learn about because in future, you will be getting familiar with the issue,” she remarked.

Source: Antara News