Speaking at the Forum for Discussion and Solution: Real World Asset (RWA) Tokenization for Digital Economy Acceleration and Digital Transformation, Pambudy said RWA tokenization could become an important financing innovation to accelerate digital transformation.
"High internet penetration, a rapidly growing digital economy, and increasing adoption of digital financial services provide the foundation for technology-based financing innovation," he said in a statement issued in Jakarta.
The minister said developing RWA tokenization would help accelerate digital transformation, expand investment access, and strengthen financing for productive sectors.
He noted that digital transformation is one of the country's key economic growth drivers to achieve the government's target of 8 percent growth by 2029.
According to Pambudy, the digital economy will play a strategic role through the adoption of blockchain technology and the tokenization of real-world assets.
He explained that tokenization enables assets such as property, commodities, gold, securities, and infrastructure assets to be represented as digital tokens, allowing them to be traded more efficiently, improving asset liquidity, and expanding public access to investment.
"Tokenization will truly transform our economic system, but in Indonesia's own way. We will transform based on our own ideas and for the prosperity of our people," Pambudy said.
He stressed that developing RWA tokenization must be accompanied by comprehensive governance to ensure the innovation develops safely, reliably, and sustainably.
Key challenges include strengthening governance of underlying assets, improving digital infrastructure and ecosystem readiness, enhancing consumer protection, and harmonizing regulations while reinforcing coordination among relevant authorities, he said.
To address those challenges, the government is promoting RWA tokenization through three main policy directions: expanding use cases across strategic sectors, strengthening regulatory and governance frameworks, and enhancing collaboration among the government, regulators, industry, academia, and associations.
"We hope today's discussion will produce more concrete solutions. Most importantly, this technology should eventually benefit low-income communities, including farmers, fishers, and livestock breeders, as well as Indonesians who have long remained outside both the global and national economic systems," Pambudy said.
At the same forum, Deputy for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation at the Ministry of National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Vivi Yulaswati said the ministry has been conducting studies and discussions with regulators, businesses, associations, academics, and development partners to map tokenization opportunities across priority sectors.
She said the priority sectors include financial services, agriculture, tourism, the creative economy, and other productive industries.
"Indonesia has already established an initial foundation through various regulatory sandbox initiatives, but implementing tokenization still requires stronger governance, regulatory harmonization, and ecosystem readiness to enable its optimal development," Vivi said.
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