"The 10 sectors are digital transportation and tourism, digital trade, digital financial services, digital media and entertainment, digital agriculture and fisheries, digital real estate and urban, digital education, digital health, industrial digitization, and government digitization," he said.
The government had compiled a Digital Indonesia Roadmap for 2021-2024 as a strategic guide to drive the nation's digital transformation process, he stated during an online discussion on "Safe Transactions in the Digital Era" and as quoted from a press statement here on Thursday.
The guide contains 100 key initiatives to be implemented in collaboration with all ministries, central and regional institutions, business actors, and the general public in Indonesia in the 10 priority sectors.
The coronavirus disease pandemic and the 4.0 industrial revolution are among the catalytic factors that expedite the digital transformation agenda.
"This momentum can also encourage economic transformation in three main focus areas, specifically economic downstreaming, especially in the digital sector, digitizing Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and the green economy," according to Plate.
The Communication and Informatics Ministry is optimistic that the implementation of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) would have a positive impact on the national economy in 2021 and 2022.
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Indonesia's economic growth is expected to recover, growing above 4.4 percent for this year. The growth is projected to strengthen to five percent in 2022.
Global economic growth this year is driven by growth in the emerging market and developing economies that are forecast to record growth of around six percent. Meanwhile, advanced economics are projected to grow by around 5.4 percent.
Overall, 90 percent of the developed economies are expected to recover by 2022, when per capita income reaches pre-pandemic levels.
"Meanwhile, only about a third of the emerging markets and developing economies can achieve a similar condition of per capita income reaching pre-pandemic levels," Plate noted.
Indonesia is one of the four other countries in the world forecast to achieve economic growth similar to the economic conditions of China, Thailand, and Brazil. Although the global economy is projected to recover in 2021, preventive efforts against some risks are still of vital importance.
"Such risks include the possibility of repeated and large COVID-19 outbreaks amid delayed and uneven vaccination programmes, financial pressures, in particular, caused by rising debt levels, and aggressive fiscal policies in an effort to contain the pandemic," he stated.
The global economy is recovering, while global growth is forecast to reach 5.6 percent in 2021. This figure is largely supported by stable access to COVID-19 vaccination, although not evenly distributed around the world.
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Translator: Natisha Andarningtyas, Katrian
Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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