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Bekraf hopes to complete phase one of creative economy plan by year-end
Bekraf has five months left to devise 34 provincial road maps and 514 city and district roadmaps to develop the creative economy in partnership with local administrations.
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Creative Economy Agency (Bekraf) head Triawan Munaf (second right) attends a talk show on Apr. 12. Bekraf is helping regional administrations develop their creative economy. (http://www.bekraf.go.id/berita/page/8/apresiasi-dan-kolaborasi-melalui-influencer-award-2019/Bekraf)
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he Creative Economy Agency (Bekraf) expects to help every regional administration create its own ‘creative economy road map’ by December, which marks the deadline for phase one of the agency’s economic development plan.
In other words, Bekraf has five months left to create 34 provincial road maps and 514 city and districts road maps that define specific deadlines and quotas for each region’s creative industry, as mandated under Presidential Regulation No. 142/2018 on Bekraf’s economic development plan up to 2025.
Bekraf’s Endah Wahyu Sulistianti, undersecretary for intragovernmental and interregional relations, told reporters on Monday that the agency’s strategy to meet the deadline hinged on efforts by the administrations of Riau and West Java.
She was referring to Riau Governor Syamsuar, who issued a regional bylaw on the creative economy in 2015, and West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil, who is slated to issue a similar bylaw for his province in two weeks.
“We will first do pilot testing in West Java and Riau. They have the regulations, so we can [draft a road map] faster. This will motivate other regions to follow suit,” she said after a briefing on the presidential regulation in Jakarta.
Under the regulation, Indonesia’s creative economy revolves around 16 industries, which include video games, fashion, interior design, architecture, music and culinary arts. The government promotes such tertiary industries to reduce the national economy’s reliance on raw materials and manufacturing.
To support the local music industry in particular, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo met local-gone-global hip-hop artist Brian Imanuel Soewarno, whose stage name is Rich Brian, at the Bogor Palace in West Java earlier this month.
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