Indonesia must not merely serve as a huge market for global digital technological products but must also have a strong bargaining position and benefit from technological transfer and innovations.
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia must not only be a huge market for global digital products but also benefit from technology transfer, Vice President Ma'ruf Amin has said.



"Indonesia must not merely serve as a huge market for global digital technological products but must also have a strong bargaining position and benefit from technological transfer and innovations," he remarked while delivering the keynote address at a national convention on National Press Day 2020.



Joining the convention via video conferencing from Jakarta on Monday, he said that Indonesia must be able to become self-reliant digitally to allow the wheel of the digital economy to reach large, medium, small, and micro businesses.


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The effort to achieve self-reliance in the digital sector must not be interpreted rigidly, and Indonesia must continue to build self-reliance in the sector, he added.



"Self-reliance in the digital sector must not be interpreted rigidly. Indonesia must be able to develop self-reliance relatively in the face of global digital platform powers," Amin elaborated.



Further, Indonesia must continue to foster relations with the digital platforms, he said. It must not rule out the possibility that there will be new technology and media in the future, he added.

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On the one hand, the government intends to develop the positive aspects of digitalization to empower economic resources, promote creative economy and micro, small, and medium businesses, and give room to digital innovations, he said.



"On the other hand, we want to always protect democratic claims and freedom of opinion and expression through regulations governing digitalization aspects," he added.



Therefore, proportional regulations must consistently be implemented to stem any tendency toward over-regulation, Amin suggested.



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