Indonesia maps out six targets to become developed nation

Indonesian Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani recently revealed six steps to turn Indonesia into a developed nation by 2045.
Indonesia maps out six targets to become developed nation ảnh 1Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani (Source: CNN Indonesia)
Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesian Minister of Finance Sri Mulyanirecently revealed six steps to turn Indonesia into a developed nation by 2045.
The six targets include improvements in infrastructure,quality of human resources, technology, government administration, regionalspatial planning and economic and financial resources.
In terms of infrastructure, Indonesia needs to build properinfrastructure starting from basic infrastructure such as sanitation, watersupply to those that create connectivity and support mobility and productivity.
Regarding human resources, the Indonesian government must develop its people and ensure that they get education, healthfacilities and social protection, in order to create productive, healthy andcreative human resources for the nation.
The government must be able to guarantee theprocurement of technological innovations that play an important role inresponding to industrial challenges in the future.
Furthermore, the government needs to improve administrative service quality and business process efficiency.
Mulyani said the government must also maintainspatial planning and manage financial economic resources in an accountable,professional and reliable manner.

Lastly, the Indonesia government must be able to increaseits economic and financial resources. A healthy State Revenue and ExpenditureBudget is the key to the success of Indonesia's target of becoming adeveloped country in 2045.

Indonesia needs to maintain positive results that had been made ineconomic growth, unemployment rate, and poor people ratio before the pandemicbroke out, said Mulyani./.
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