Jakarta –
Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan recently visited Australia National University. He shared this moment by uploading a video on his personal Instagram account @luhut.pandjaitan.
Luhut said he emphasized to the professors and researchers who met him there that Indonesia was not a small, weak country, aka the banana republic (banana republic).
“We’re not a banana republic. Indonesia is already far more developed than you knew before. That’s how I convey to them how our economy after the pandemic and global economic turmoil that never ends continues to grow and is resilient even though many other countries are under pressure because of the two the crisis,” said Luhut in a statement on the upload, Saturday (18/2/2023).
According to him, this condition can be achieved by Indonesia, partly because Indonesia continues to focus on developing the downstream industry. The goal is to increase the added value of Indonesia’s natural wealth.
Therefore, he invited the professors and researchers to visit Indonesia, along with an entourage from the Australian Minister of Industry, Mrs. Madeleines.
“You can see how we really build the downstream industry from upstream to downstream. In addition to adding value to Indonesia’s natural wealth, we also add value to Indonesia’s human resources.
Luhut further said, he wanted these academics to see firsthand how technology transfer was carried out through the establishment of several Industrial Polytechnics for human resource development.
He also believes that if the local workforce is educated and skilled in operating industrial machinery, RI will no longer need to bring in workers from abroad. For this reason, he hopes these academics can prove RI’s seriousness directly through their visit.
“My hope is simple, so that the ‘trust’ that we both need appears because you have proven it yourself, including what is happening in Papua at this time. We have proven one thing that we can do together to build infrastructure and build educated and skilled people. same,” he concluded.
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