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The Presidential Staff Office (KSP) is ready to oversee the five priority agendas of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Vice President Ma'ruf Amin’s administration in 2023.

The five priority agendas are downstreaming and industrializing natural resources; optimizing clean energy sources and enhancing the green economy; increasing legal, social, political, and economic protection for the people; continuing the digitization of the economy so that Indonesian micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) can immediately upgrade their class; and ensuring the sustainable development of the new capital (IKN) Nusantara and the National Strategic Program.

"KSP will oversee and ensure that the priority agenda and policies of the President are not only sent, but (seep) properly down to the lower levels," the head of KSP, Moeldoko, said in Jakarta on Tuesday.

In 2022, the KSP carried out the tasks assigned by  the President, namely overseeing national priority programs and the national strategic program (PSN), he informed.

Even though facing a rather difficult situation in 2021–2022, the KSP managed to work well.

"I have also received an order to map out the conditions of the many national strategic programs," he said.

Moeldoko further said that in 2023, the world is expected to face situations full of turmoil, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, which will move dynamically and be difficult to predict.

By understanding these complex conditions, Indonesia is expected to formulate an appropriate crisis management strategy to ensure that all goals can be achieved, he added.

Despite the geopolitical conflicts and crises that are continuing to haunt the world, the five big national agendas must continue to be pursued to achieve the Advanced Indonesia goal, President Widodo emphasized earlier.

The agendas are aimed at developing an inclusive, fair, and sustainable Indonesia, the President said during the annual session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) and the joint session of the House of Representatives (DPR) and the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) at the Parliamentary Complex here on August 16, 2022.

"The nation's grand agenda must not stop. Great efforts must continue to be made. There are at least five big agendas that I have emphasized earlier," he added.

The first of the five big agendas involves the downstreaming and industrialization of natural resources.

The President informed that the downstreaming of the nickel industry led to an 18-fold increase in the exports of iron and steel. In addition to tax revenue, the country's foreign exchange is expected to rise so the rupiah exchange rate will remain stable.

According to Widodo, Indonesia should build an integrated ecosystem for the industry that will support the development of the global green economy ecosystem.

The second agenda involves the optimization of green energy sources and lays emphasis on improving the green economy.

As for the third agenda, Widodo called for continuing efforts to strengthen the community's legal, social, political, and economic protection.

He emphasized that the realization of civil rights and democratic practices as well as the political rights of women and the rights of marginalized communities must be guaranteed.

The fourth agenda aims to continuously support MSMEs to level up. The government has continued to boost economic digitalization to empower MSMEs, thereby leading to the development of 2 decacorn companies and 9 unicorn companies, he said.

According to the President, at least 19 million MSMEs have entered the digital ecosystem, and the figure is targeted to reach 30 million by 2024.

The fifth agenda highlighted by the President is that the construction of the national capital of Nusantara (IKN) must not stall.

"The IKN is not only for state civil apparatus but also a city of innovators and entrepreneurs. The city will not only house government offices, but it will also become a new economic driving force. It will not only be an ordinary city but it will be a forest city with world-class education and health services," he said. (antaranews)