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Technology And Business Sector Synergy Accelerated To Achieve 8% Growth

The government through the Ministry of National Development Planning/Bappenas continues to strengthen the national digital transformation strategy by encouraging synergy between technology industry players and the real sector. 

This effort is part of the implementation of the 2025–2029 National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) and is aimed at driving national economic growth to 8 percent by 2029. 

This was conveyed at the Digital Economy & Finance Forum themed "From Strategy to Execution: National Digital Transformation and Business Ecosystem Synergy Towards 8% Economic Growth" which was held in Jakarta. 

This forum is a strategic meeting place between regulators, industry players, and associations to accelerate the transformation of the productive sector through digital innovation. 

"Digital transformation is one of the main strategies to drive economic growth. Indonesia has great digital economic potential, and digitalization of the financial sector plays an important role as an enabler in supporting various priority development programs," said the Minister of National Development Planning/Head of Bappenas, Rachmat Pambudy in his statement, Sunday (6/7). 

Digital transformation is listed as one of the eight priorities in the 2025–2029 RPJMN. The focus includes accelerating industrialization, data-based green and blue economy, regional economic growth through digitalization, and the effectiveness of state spending with technology-based governance. In the forum, the Ministry of PPN/Bappenas in collaboration with the Indonesian Fintech Association (AFTECH) introduced the Digital × Real Sector Launchpad program, an initiative designed to bridge the needs of the real sector with digital solutions collaboratively. 

This program applies a co-creation approach starting from identifying challenges, designing solutions, trials, to data-based evaluations. AFTECH General Chair Pandu Sjahrir said that this forum was a follow-up to the digital ecosystem discussion that was previously held in March 2025. 

"Digitalization is not just a jargon. This is about how we answer the real challenges of the real sector: access to financing, data gaps, and limited digital services that reach productive business actors," he said. One of the initial projects of this initiative is the digitalization of dairy cooperatives in Malang. The project collaborates with various fintech providers from business models such as alternative credit scoring, insurance, financing, to financial planning. 

AFTECH Supervisory Board Chairman Arsjad Rasjid emphasized the importance of partnerships between the government and business actors as a “double engine” in driving the competitiveness of the real sector. He proposed four main steps to support this partnership: strengthening digital infrastructure, cross-sector data integration, developing digital talent, and protecting consumers through regulation. 

“These four steps are important so that digitalization truly touches the real sector and has a direct impact on society,” said Arsjad. 

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