Makassar, South Sulawesi – Coordinating Minister for Person Development and Culture, Muhadjir Effendy, shared the program for fostering youth toward realizing the Golden Indonesia 2045 objective at the nationwide working conference of the Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association (ICMI) here.
The younger generation is the foundation of the country and will bear fantastic duty in realizing the country’s suitables, he stated at the conference on Saturday.
Among Indonesia’s goals is to become an independent, sovereign, simply, and flourishing country by 2045, when it commemorates 100 years of self-reliance, he included.
” As a country that has abundant natural resources and remarkable variety, Indonesia has a big vision, namely Golden Indonesia 2045,” he said.
He included that 2045 is 22 years away and the present young generation, specifically those aged 18 and above, will be the leaders of the country already.
” When they are 35 years old and above, they will lead (assume leadership positions) in Indonesia. If we live till aging, we can witness it,” he stated.
Indonesia, with its current gross domestic product (GDP) of US$ 5 thousand per capita, is anticipated to end up being an industrialized country with a GDP of US$30,600 per capita.
Effendy stated that Indonesia requires to improve its existing GDP by 6 times to achieve the objective.
” We are not there yet, despite the fact that our current (economic) development is reasonably better compared to the 20 major countries,” he explained.
Performing governor of South Sulawesi, Bahtiar Baharuddin, said that ICMI’s nationwide working conference supplied insights about the domestic political contestancy in 2024.
All presidential prospects were welcomed to share their strategies for building Indonesia at the online forum.
Baharuddin stated that the online forum was held in Makassar as it is thought about conducive and numerous nationwide political figures have actually come from the city.
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