Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka National Campaign Team (TKN) said there were 8 challenges which became the basis for preparing the vision and mission of the presidential and vice presidential candidate pair. Utilizing the demographic bonus which will soon be one of the urgent challenges to be resolved.
The Prabowo-Gibran TKN Expert Council, Drajad Prabowo, said that Indonesia only has 13 years left to enjoy the demographic bonus. If this bonus cannot be utilized, then Indonesia will have the potential to become a country with an old population with middle income.
“Perhaps many people don’t realize that we only have about 13 years to take advantage of our demographic bonus. If not, we will soon grow old before we get rich,” said Drajad in the Your Money Your Vote program on CNBC Indonesia, Wednesday (15/11/ 2023).
Because of this, Drajad said Prabowo-Gibran wanted to move quickly to achieve targeted economic growth. In this way, he said, the vision and mission of Advanced Indonesia 2045 will be realized.
“We have to speed up this, because that is the vision and mission that we have to achieve a golden Indonesia in 2045, so we have to make good use of it,” he said.
Drajad said another challenge that Prabowo considered important was climate change. He rejected accusations from environmental activists who stated that the presidential candidates had little idea about environmental sustainability and climate change.
According to him, Prabowo actually considers climate change to be the most important strategic challenge. “Climate change is a strategic challenge that Pak Prabowo places at the forefront,” he said.
Drajad said that geopolitical conflict is also the next challenge that Indonesia will face. He said Prabowo paid attention to the potential for armed geopolitical conflict in the Taiwan area to the South China Sea.
Drajad successively mentioned a number of other challenges which the Prabowo-Gibran couple considered very important for formulating their vision and mission. He said there were challenges regarding the disruption of artificial intelligence, the threat of a new pandemic, and the increasing world population.
“We are not only facing disruption from digital but also artificial intelligence,” said Drajad.
He said that medical and biological experts saw that the risk of the emergence of a new pandemic was something to be very wary of. Therefore, Prabowo and Gibran and the team will implement programs to prepare for challenges strategically.
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