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Government halts creative district plan, focuses on ‘creative hubs’
The creative economy contributed 7.4 percent to Indonesia’s GDP in 2016, with growth expected to reach 9.6 percent in 2019.
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Semasa first announced the Bank Indonesia Museum event in early October, also inviting would-be tenants to drop their brand portfolio. Only ten days later, Semasa announced the date of the creative market and notified that all spots available are already filled with tenants. (Instagram/semasa_di/File)
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he government plans to develop "creative hubs" at super-priority tourism destinations to add value to regional economies, putting on the shelf an earlier plan by the now-defunct Creative Economy Agency (Bekraf) for creative districts across Indonesia.
The Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry, which has taken over Bekraf’s role, seeks to create centers of creative excellence that would explore and nurture each region’s creative economy potential, such as crafts, cuisine, fashion and performing arts.
“We have been working with the Public Works and Housing Ministry in establishing the creative hub in Pusat Waringin, Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara,” Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Wishnutama Kusubandi told the press on Jan. 8.
He said the ministry was building creative hubs around Lake Toba (North Sumatra), Borobudur temple and Semarang old town in Central Java.
Indonesia is turning toward creative economy, tourism and digital economy as new economic engines as gross domestic product (GDP) grew the least in more than two years. The creative economy contributed 7.4 percent to Indonesia’s GDP in 2016, with growth expected to reach 9.6 percent in 2019 to top Rp 1.2 quadrillion, according to Bekraf.
“As for the plan for creative districts, I still need to study that,” he said, referring to Bekraf’s earlier plan to establish Bekraf Creative Districts (BCD) last year, which would be the first districts dedicated to the development of creative industries.
BCD is one of the Strategic Priority Projects in the 2020-2024 Mid-Term National Development Plan.
