Interpreting the President’s Vision

KOMPAS/HERU SRI KUMORO

Reelected President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (second left) and vice president-elect Ma\'ruf Amin (second right), accompanied by First Lady Iriana (left) and Amin’s wife, Wury Estu Handayani (right), wave on Sunday (14/7/2019) during their “Vision for Indonesia” rally in Sentul, Bogor, West Java. Thousands of volunteers and political party leaders who supported the Jokowi-Amin campaign attended the event.

President-elect Joko Widodo has just disclosed the Vision for Indonesia for the 2019-2024 term, namely to make Indonesia, which is more productive, competitive and have flexibility.The foundation to realize this vision is the unity and integrity of the nation with Pancasila as a state ideology that unites Indonesia\'s diversity.

The president-elect for the 2019-2024 term has conveyed the vision of the government he will lead with Vice President-elect Ma\'ruf Amin for the next five years.

There are five government work programs of Joko Widodo-Ma\'ruf Amin, namely continuing the infrastructure development, inviting the widest possible investment from outside and within the country to open job opportunities, reforming the bureaucracy so that the civil servants have the ability to adjust to global changes in a very fast way, the use of State Budget (APBN) that is focused and on target. All of them are supported and aimed at improving the quality of human resources.

KOMPAS/HERU SRI KUMORO

Reelected President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo speaks on Sunday (14/7/2019) at the “Vision for Indonesia” rally in Sentul, Bogor, West Java. Thousands of volunteers and political party leaders who supported the Jokowi-Amin campaign attended the event, which outlined the President’s vision for his second and final term in office.

The president-elect specifically mentioned several work programs to realize the vision, including health insurance for pregnant women, children under five, and school children, lowering the number of the stunting cases among children, improving the quality of education and developing vocational education; infrastructure that connects small industrial estates, tourism, rice fields, plantations, and ponds; ensuring Pancasila as the only ideology of the state, tolerance in religious, ethnic and tribal life, civilized democracy; and cutting investment permits to help speed up the creation of jobs, bureaucratic reforms, dissolution of problematic state institutions, and changes in the mindset and the working system of the bureaucrats.

These visions and strategies need to be translated in details, transformed into policies, and finally work programs. This is the duty of the president\'s ministers in the cabinet, regional heads, and the bureaucratic officers.

KOMPAS/HERU SRI KUMORO

Reelected President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (second left) and vice president-elect Ma\'ruf Amin (right), accompanied by First Lady Iriana (left) and Amin’s wife, Wury Estu Handayani (second right), wave on Sunday (14/7/2019) during their “Vision for Indonesia” rally in Sentul, Bogor, West Java. Thousands of volunteers and political party leaders who supported the Jokowi-Amin campaign attended the event.

Things, that have not been touched on, but urgently need to be done, need time and patience in their implementation, are to change the mindset and the working system of the bureaucrats. Our bureaucracy is very large, covering services in 514 regencies and cities. This bureaucracy is appointed in the regions as the spearhead of development that is directly related to the community.

The restructuring should be planned carefully, if necessary, by using a guiding project approach before being implemented in all ministries up to all the regencies and cities. All must be done immediately since changing the mindset is a process that requires time, continuity, and needs examples from the top.

KOMPAS/HERU SRI KUMORO

Participants raise read and white flags and a sign on Sunday (14/7/2019) during the “Vision for Indonesia” rally in Sentul, Bogor, West Java. Thousands of volunteers and political party leaders who supported Joko Widodo and Ma’ruf Amin attended the event, which outlined the President’s vision for his second and final term in office.

If the president-elect wants Indonesia to be highly competitive, it means that human development must be the focus. Building human beings requires the development of social infrastructure, namely health and education, supported by quality food in varied forms and sufficiently available, and can be accessed by individuals in the household in line with the needs. We can no longer be careless in handling the three social infrastructures if the improvement of human quality becomes the goal of development.