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To boost the activities of oil and gas sector, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources -ESDM is revoking 32 regulations in the sector of oil and gas. The effort is expected to boost investment, economic growth and employment. The policy is distributed in the oil and gas sub-sectors, such as minerals and coal (minerba), electricity, renewable energy and energy conservation (EBTKE). In addition, the Ministry also simplifies the regulations on the Special Unit for Upstream Oil and Gas business activities (SKK-Migas).

This step is a government effort to eliminate the obstacles that have been a stumbling block, especially for entrepreneurs. Thus, investment is expected to grow as expected by the government and the people. Minister of the ESDM, Ignasius Jonan said that the government through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources will continue to implement the strategy so that the business sector is getting better and better. The efforts to facilitate investment through the revocation or simplification of regulations and licensing will continue to be encouraged. Of the 32 regulations revoked, 11 are from the oil and gas sector. Secretary General of the ESDM, Ego Syarial explained that some businesspeople complained about some irrelevant regulations that must be simplified. Meanwhile, the regulations of the ESDM that are not revoked cover the derivatives of the mandate of the Constitution on the management of natural resources as much as possible for the welfare of Indonesian people.

Head of SKK Migas, Amien Sunaryadi said that there are a number of points that hamper the investment rate of upstream oil and gas sector. There is still a pending or unrealized investment today due to exploration problems to find oil reserves. The reason is that t the world’s oil prices are very cheap nowadays. In addition, there is also impact of the regulation. Amien Suryadi explained that the government has issued a new regulation that is expected to create favorable condition for investment in the oil and gas sector.

The government is pursuing economic growth of 5.5% by 2018. Thus, various efforts are carried out by the stakeholders to boost some sectors. The revocation of 32 regulations that hamper economic acceleration, particularly in the fields of oil and gas and renewable energy, is an option that is considered significant today, especially in meeting the target of economic growth.

Although macroeconomic indicators are now improving, the reality is that this is not a high economic growth. The policy of regulation simplification is expected to boost investment activities across Indonesia.

The development of infrastructure that becomes the work program of President Joko Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla is closely related to the utilization of space and land use. Therefore, in order to obtain a geospatial reference with one standard, the government continues to accelerate the one map policy. 

Monday afternoon, February 5, 2018, President Joko Widodo along with Vice President Jusuf Kalla and related officials again discussed the implementation of this one map policy. It was the third meeting to discuss the policy.

He cautioned that this policy is crucial for immediate implementation. Differences in geospatial data and references so far have often made the process of determining strategic policy difficult.

"The overlapping of maps and licensing has led to conflict and resulted in disputes that hampered economic growth in the region, as I received information on KalimantaK island about four million hectares of forest overlap with plantation areas," he continued.

The President believes that the one map policy when  fully implemented will be able to solve the problems that often arise in the field as happened in Kalimantan. ( biro pers ) 

A student from vocational school explains their innovation to President Joko Widodo

The progress of a country depends on the ability of its human resources. Other things not less important are social and political stability, government management, mastery of science and technology and creativity and innovation of its human resources. The statement was conveyed by President Joko Widodo in his speech at the National Education and Culture Meeting 2018 held at Pusdiklat Kemendikbud, Sawangan, Depok, Tuesday, February 6, 2018.

The Ministry of Education and Culture has a great responsibility in developing human resources in Indonesia. "This huge responsibility lies on the shoulders of you attending this meeting here," said the President.

Therefore, the President reminded the importance of education that build Pancasila character. Through education also, honesty, togetherness, politeness, values​and character taughg to the children.

"This is where the importance of education, education that teaches the struggle, education that builds the character of the learner, who always learns without waiting to be patronized, who always innovate without waiting to be taught," said the Head of State.

"That is our capital as a great nation capable of solving problems everywhere, and at the same time to win global competition," he said.

The President warned that the wealth of natural resources can not guarantee the welfare and success of a nation. Many developed countries actually do not have natural resources, but on the contrary many countries with abundant natural resources suffer from poverty, even conflict and civil war.

"Natural resources that often spoil and make us lazy, beat the fighting power, make us careless and do not encourage us all to innovate and have creativity," said the President.

On the occasion, the President reminded that the government has been trying hard to improve education services, both at central, provincial and district level through the Indonesian Smart Card program (KIP). "We want to ensure access to education for underprivileged children, "the President said.

Therefore, budget support from Central to Regional is also continuously improved and efforts to improve the quality of teachers and education infrastructure continue to run.

Therefore, the President invited all participants not to get caught up in the routine because it has been running for many years without any renewal, without a major innovation in education and culture.

"Our courage is to make a breakthrough because the changing world is now going so fast," said the President.

Also present accompanying the President were Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Puan Maharani, Minister of State Secretary Pratikno, Minister of Education and Culture Muhadjir Effendy.(Release Protocol, Press and Media Secretariat of the President)