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President Joko Widodo hopes that the Faculty of Forestry, Gadjah Mada University (UGM) will be able to develop innovation in the era of disruption to advance the forestry sector in Indonesia.

"I believe that the UGM Faculty of Forestry can develop innovations in the current era of disruption, and hijack disruption for the leap forward in Indonesian forestry," said President Jokowi at the Open Senate Meeting in the 57th Anniversary of the UGM Faculty of Forestry online and monitored in Yogyakarta, Friday.

According to the President, forestry science always occupies a central position in managing the relationship between people and nature, especially between people and forests.

The President said Indonesia is entering an era of a prolonged tug-of-war between forests in an agricultural concept, an industrial concept, and a post-industrial concept.

In reality, Jokowi continued, forest-based agrarization and industrialization are still the most important economic sectors.

However, according to him, the concepts of agrarization and industrialization are often contradicted with post-industrial concepts which are conservative and conservative.

"In this regard, I hope the Faculty of Forestry UGM to find common ground to find this bridge is the task to study and develop new UGM concepts," said Jokowi, who is also an alumnus of the UGM Faculty of Forestry.

One solution that should be taken into account, according to the President, is the use of digital technology by developing "precision forestry".

The technology can calculate accurately and precisely with the use of digital and computational technology and utilize analytical data and artificial intelligence development.

"With the help of this technology, we can develop a combined spirit of forest use in agricultural and industrial concepts without sacrificing post-industrial use," he added. (Antaranews)