Digital innovation becomes key to confronting pandemic: BUMN minister 16th December 2020
State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Minister Erick Thohir during an online seminar in Jakarta, Wednesday. (16/12/2020). ANTARA/Aji Cakti Jakarta (ANTARA) - State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Minister Erick Thohir gauged that digital innovation had become the key to facing the pandemic, both now and in future. We must remember that our enemy in the future is a pandemic, for which many aspects called digitization are very helpful, Thohir noted during an online seminar in Jakarta, Wednesday.
The BUMN minister believes that the key is to streamline digital savings services to customers, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Finance Minister sheds light on digital transformation policy 16th December 2020
A consumer uses electronic money issued by BJB DigiCash for transaction at a restaurant in Sagalaherang, Subang District of West Java. ANTARA PHOTO/Novrian Arbi/rwa/sh
Maintaining financial system stability by accommodating digital technology has become crucial. Jakarta (ANTARA) - Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati spoke at length on the digital transformation policy direction for the 2020-2024 period to optimize the potential to maintain financial system stability.
Digital technology can boost the economy but concurrently has the potential to create disruption and instability, for which the right policy direction is deemed necessary, Indrawati affirmed.
Pandemic becomes good momentum to expedite digital transformation 15th December 2020
Illustration of online shopping delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. (ANTARA / Doc. West Java Provincial Government Public Relations)
The development of technology and the impetus for change after the pandemic is a good momentum for us to accelerate our digital transformation towards a less contact economy Jakarta (ANTARA) - COVID-19 pandemic becomes momentum to accelerate digital transformation towards a less contact economy, Deputy for Coordination of Creative Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Competitiveness of Cooperatives and SMEs of Coordinating Economic Affairs Ministry M. Rudy Salahuddin stated. The development of technology and the impetus for change after the pandemic is a good momentum for us to accelerate our digital transformation towards a less contact economy, he stated at the virtual Indonesia Digital Conference event in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Government spending to remain key support for economy: ministry 15th December 2020
Illustration - A worker passes in front of an under construction multi-storeyed building in the Kuningan area of Jakarta on April 3, 2020. (ANTARA/Dhemas Reviyanto/pras) Jakarta (ANTARA) - Government spending will remain the main support for national economic growth amid efforts for recovery, particularly in the fourth quarter, said Coordinating Economic Minister’s undersecretary for creative economy, entrepreneurship and SME competitiveness, M Rudy Salahuddin. The government spending components remain the main supporting force, Salahuddin stated at the Indonesia Digital Conference, held online here on Tuesday.
He said the government spending is aimed at maintaining the momentum for an economic recovery, which has been seen from the second to the third quarter of this year. After growing just 2.97 percent in the first quarter of 2020, Indonesia’s economy shrank 5.32 percent
Digital technology playing significant role in national trade: govt 15th December 2020
A customer uses the digital payment facility at Warung Pinus cafe, Subang, West Java. (ANTARA FOTO/Novrian Arbi/rwa) Jakarta (ANTARA) - Digital technology is playing a significant role in national trade, and this is particularly evident in the growth of e-commerce transactions, according to an official with the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs. The impact of technology on trade is reflected in e-commerce transactions and an increase in sales figures, Muhammad Rudy Salahuddin, deputy for coordination of creative economy, entrepreneurship and competitiveness of cooperatives and small and medium enterprises at the ministry, said during the Indonesia Digital Conference, held virtually here on Tuesday.