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March

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Jakarta (voinews): The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture urges parents to oversee the development of their children's character in order to create a golden and quality generation.

"Parents must take care and oversee the development as well as changes in children's character," the ministry's deputy for coordinating education quality improvement and religious moderation, Warsito, stated in Jakarta, Tuesday.

Warsito also reminded that the school, family, and community play an important role in overseeing the character development of children.

"Apart from the family's role, the school and the environment must assist to oversee the formation and development of the children's character," he remarked.

He noted that the ministry has urged all parties to jointly strengthen character education in children to shape them to grow into individuals with noble character as well as make efforts to prevent children from becoming perpetrators of violence.

"Moreover, recently, news was circulating about teenagers being involved in violent act during Ramadan," Warsito pointed out.

He also stated that the ministry encourages the strengthening of good practices according to beliefs, especially during religious learning or character education building.

"This good practice is expected to continue to be followed in all processes in the field of learning," he stated.

Warsito also emphasized the importance of psychological assistance and positive dialogue to support children's growth and development.

"Psychological assistance by experts and also assistance by families can be one of the important keys in overseeing the formation of children's character," he stated.

In addition, he remarked that family communication has good benefits to help children to grow up with good manners and to not become perpetrators of violence.

This statement was made in the wake of a case of several teenagers in various areas that were arrested by the police for being involved in sarong brawls during Ramadan.

In fact, the incident in Palmerah, West Jakarta, on Thursday, March 23, resulted in the death of one person after being hit by a sharp weapon. (Antaranews)

29
March

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Jakarta (voinews): President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has emphasized the importance of cheap energy sources in supporting sustainable economic growth, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said at the Presidential Palace here on Tuesday.

"Mr. President asked what factors that can make us have a sustainable economy, one of which is cheap energy," he informed.

He said that the availability of cheap energy sources is one of the issues emphasized in the drafting of the National Long-Term Development Plan (RPJPN) for 2025–2045.

The availability of energy sources is key for supporting economic growth, he added.

Energy sources need to be obtained at low costs so that economic growth can progress along with controlled inflation, he explained.

Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, he said, controlling energy prices is essential for preventing uncontrolled inflation.

"Cheap energy was important in times of COVID-19. Inflation is strongly influenced by energy; fluctuating energy and food prices cause uncontrolled inflation in many countries," he said.

The President has asked his ministers to prepare a grand and detailed strategy for the 2025–2045 RPJPN.

The RPJPN 2025–2045 discussion has also encompassed strategies for getting Indonesia out of the middle-income trap and advancing vocational education.

In the industrial sector, President Widodo has asked for an increase in the manufacturing sector's contribution to the economy, which is currently at 18 percent, to 20 percent by 2045.

"The President has asked for more detailed strategies in these sectors and that is what the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) is preparing," Hartarto said.

At the same meeting, Minister of National Development Planning and Bappenas head, Suharso Monoarfa, apprised President Widodo about the half-term report of the 2020–2024 RPJMN and made a preliminary report on the preparation of the 2025–2045 RPJPN.

Monoarfa said that starting from 2025, Indonesia will need a transformation to achieve the vision of Golden Indonesia 2045.

The Golden Indonesia 2045 vision, according to him, envisages Indonesia as a sovereign, developed, and sustainable maritime country. (Antaranews)

29
March

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Jakarta (voinews): The government is formulating a policy for realizing an independent, healthy, and respectable elderly population, National Development Planning Minister and National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) head Suharso Monoarfa has said.

"The population health in 2050 is predicted to improve and thus have an impact on increasing the elderly population number," Monoarfa said at the third plenary meeting of the Statistical Society Forum (FMS), according to a post on his official Instagram handle @suharsomonoarfa, which was accessed from here on Tuesday.

Some of the government's policy directions regarding the elderly population include preparing for social and economic retirement.

The direction involves extending the retirement age for all workers from the current 58 years and preventing the crowding out effect, the minister informed.

Then, the government will optimize new potential sources of economic growth from the elderly population by making them both consumers and producers, which is also known as the silver economy, he added.

"One of which is expanding suitable job opportunities for older workers," Monoarfa said.

The government will direct the policy at the elderly population that maintains sustainable consumption patterns to prevent a surge in health spending in old age and improve human resource investment when young.

Furthermore, he said, a longer life expectancy must be supported by a healthy life expectancy, thereby increasing productivity.

According to him, longer life expectancy encourages more savings, with the assumption that social protection already covers retirement benefits and long-term care for most of the elderly population.

"This was applied in Japan and South Korea in the 1990s and in Europe in the 1900s," he said.

There are eight Indonesian provinces that are currently experiencing population aging, according to the National Population and Family Planning Board (BKKBN).

According to the agency’s data, the eight provinces are Yogyakarta, East Java, Central Java, North Sulawesi, Bali, South Sulawesi, Lampung, and West Java. (Antaranews)

29
March

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Jakarta (voinews): The national digital payment Quick Response Code Indonesian Standard (QRIS) has connected around 31 million users and 25 million merchants so far, according to Bank Indonesia (BI).

"As many as 91 percent of those merchants are micro-enterprises," said Assistant Governor of BI, Filianingsih Hendarta, at the “High-Level Seminar From ASEAN to The World” entitled “Payment System in the Digital Era,” held in Badung, Bali, on Tuesday.

According to her, the achievement has illustrated the standardization of the national QR code for payment transactions.

QRIS has shown a significant improvement since its launch in early 2020, both in terms of transaction nominal and volume.

In 2020, QRIS transactions in Indonesia reached 124 million with a value of Rp8.2 trillion (around US$544.8 million).

Then, in 2021, the number of transactions increased to 375 million and their value jumped to Rp27.73 trillion (around US$1.84 billion).

In 2022, the number of transactions rose to 993 million with a value pegged at Rp98.45 trillion (around US$6.54 billion).

Hendarta further said that standardization of payment transactions has also been carried out in the payment of transportation services as well as government transactions, including domestic credit card schemes.

In addition, BI established the Open API National Standard (SNAP) earlier in July 2022. SNAP enables open interconnection between applications in payments.

"Therefore, SNAP balances the position between banks and non-banks, thus enabling healthy innovations and competitions to grow," she explained.

The BI assistant governor said that all the standardization has been carried out in line with the rapid development of domestic payment systems and widespread digitalization.

The standardization is also a part of the Indonesia Payment Systems Blueprint 2025, which has become a game changer for the country. (Antaranews)