The Ministry of Creative Economy meets with the Working Group to discuss steps to strengthen the creative and creative sector

Jakarta (ANTARA) –

Minister of Creative Economy Teuku Riefky Harsya held a meeting with Creative Economy Practitioners to strengthen the creative economy ecosystem in Indonesia.

He explained that collaboration between creative economy sub-sectors with other ministries, such as the Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Industry, and Ministry of Communications and Digital is very important for the new engine of national economic growth (new engine of growth).

“We are open to jointly defining which subsector focuses more on the creative economy, industry or culture. In this way, we can synergize steps to resolve the confusion that has been felt by the community. Because of course we want the creative economy to become a new economic force Indonesia,” said Minister of Creative Economy Riefky in a press statement received on Friday.

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In this meeting, Minister of Creative Economy Teuku Riefky accompanied by Deputy Minister of Creative Economy Irene Umar said that the government needed input from stakeholders, especially creative economy players.

This Creative Economy Practitioner brings together more than 200 activists from various sub-sectors of the creative economy. This team aims to encourage the narrative of the importance of a circular economy that involves culture and the creative economy directly and sustainably.

Founder of the Indonesian Food Museum and founder of Indonesia Dessert Week, Gupta Sitorus, who represents the culinary subsector, said that synergy between the government and all creative economy subsectors is considered very important to optimize the potential of this industry. Good synergy can reduce distortions and deviations between the activities of creative economy actors and the direction of government policy.

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“Current conditions can be said to be not ideal. There are distortions and deviations between what fellow creative economy actors are doing and the policies formulated by the government. Now, what we want to discuss is how to synergize these two things,” said Gupta.

On this occasion, creative economy actors also expressed their views and input regarding the obstacles or obstacles they faced, from upstream to downstream.

Some of the issues discussed include the clustering of creative economy subsectors outside the existing 17 subsectors as well as the preparation of a more comprehensive strategic plan. Apart from that, the proposal to use the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) as an alternative performance assessment indicator, apart from contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and added value, was also discussed.

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“Other measurement points, such as CAGR, can be used to assess the progress of a country’s creative economy. Apart from the GDP rate, it is also important to look at the contribution of subsectors to other fields, such as design,” said Ritchie Ned Hansel, Chair of the Indonesian Graphic Design Association.

Responding to this, Deputy Minister of Creative Economy Irene, who has a background as an entrepreneur, expressed her understanding of the challenges faced by creative economy actors. He emphasized that the input received will become an important note for future follow-up.

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“With a background from the private sector, I understand this struggle. We have discussed with Bappenas to collect data on the existing issues. This is necessary so that we can work together in placing the creative economy as a new growth engine that will take us towards a Golden Indonesia,” said Irene.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Jakarta Creative Economy Committee, Diaz Hensuk, who was present at the meeting, was optimistic that the Ministry of Creative Economy could now be an excellent facilitator for Creative Economy actors.

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