JAKARTA – The utilization of digital transformation is expected to have a significant impact on economic growth in the regions and nationally.
Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) Abdullah Azwar Anas revealed that the foundation of digital is digital public infrastructure, one of which is digital payment which is the focus of the National Portal.
“It is a digital payment system that needs to be supported by the Task Force for the Acceleration and Expansion of Regional Digitalisation (P2DD TF), ensuring transactions can be done instantly and safely,” said Minister Anas at the National Coordination Meeting for P2DD 2024 in Jakarta, Monday (23/9).
Minister Anas explained that collaboration between government institutions, media, universities, industry, and communities is needed in building a national digital ecosystem. None of the actors can achieve their goals without influencing the others.
“Bank Indonesia has initiated how digital payment can work well. Regional governments, governors, regional heads surely need to continue the collaborations which have been conveyed earlier as the graph shows an increase,” he said.
It is expected that the P2DD TF, through the central role of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and Bank Indonesia, can play an active role in the provision of digital payment services as part of the foundation of Digital Public Infrastructure.
This includes consolidating government financial transactions and encouraging digital economic growth throughout Indonesia.
“This step can be accelerated through support for the implementation of the National Portal as we will conduct a limited release of INAku, INAgov, INApas in September. It includes services including digital payment services,” said the former Head of LKPP.
Furthermore, Minister Anas cited good practices from digital utilization in various countries.
He mentioned that digital utilization in India shortened 40 years of development. From a projection of 47 years, with digital payment, digital ID, and data exchange, it was achieved in only 7 years.
Meanwhile, Estonia managed to double its GDP and China, through digital financial inclusion, can significantly reduce poverty.
According to the former Banyuwangi Regent, digital payments can encourage the acceleration of transparency.
“Thank you Mr. Coordinating Minister of Economic Affairs, Mrs. Minister of Finance. Hopefully, with your hard work, the regions can continue to rise with digitalisation in the future, especially digital payments,” he said.
On the occasion, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said that amid global uncertainty, Indonesia’s economic fundamentals are relatively solid.
Indonesia’s economy in the second quarter of 2024 grew by 5.05% (y-o-y). Meanwhile, indicators of people’s welfare increased significantly.
“This is the result of the cooperation of all parties, including digital infrastructure. Of course, in the future, what needs to be considered is that Indonesia maintains the purchasing power of the middle class and opens the export market,” he said.
Regarding digitalisation, Airlangga explained that Indonesia as the chair of the ASEAN Summit in 2023 has supported the Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA).
For this reason, P2DD is very important. It helps the development of electronic policy implementation and local government transactions.
Meanwhile, Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo explained that the digitalisation of the payment system starts from the Indonesian payment system blueprint, which was launched in 2019 and until 2025, and has been updated until 2030.
Through the payment system blueprint, Bank Indonesia synergises with various central and regional program initiatives to digitalise.
“Through the development of QRIS (QR Indonesia Standard), through Bi Fast, government segment Indonesian credit cards, and various aspects we continue to develop, this is a support for how to accelerate the digitalisation of payments not only in the national financial economy but also regional finance,” he said.
He explained that payment digitalisation also contributes positively to national economic recovery and growth at the central and regional levels. Digitalisation also strengthens governance and supports government efficiency.
