Jakarta – The Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) collaborates with the Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association (HIPMI) as outlined in a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in the Investment Sector. The Head of BKPM, Bahlil Lahadalia and the General Chairperson of HIPMI, Mardani H. Maming, signed the Memorandum of Understanding in person at the BKPM office, Jakarta, this Wednesday afternoon (10/2).
Bahlil expressed his appreciation for the cooperation with HIPMI. According to Bahlil, the important points covered in the memorandum of understanding include the implementation of Presidential Regulation Number 42 of 2020 concerning Awarding and / or Imposing of Sanctions to State Ministries / Institutions and Regional Governments, as well as collaboration between large entrepreneurs and small entrepreneurs.
BKPM acts as a coordinator in assessing the performance of Ministries / Institutions (K / L) and local governments. In this case, BKPM will involve HIPMI as a team of K / L and regional performance assessors in terms of managing investment licensing. Bahlil emphasized that if there is a local government that does not take care of the investment properly, then the sanctions given are up to the detention of the regional budget.
Currently, any investment that receives an incentive is obliged to allocate part of its work to regional entrepreneurs. Furthermore, an Independent Team from the BKPM will be formed to avoid nepotism.
“I ask HIPMI, so that what is being pushed is the right entrepreneurs, not those whose businesses are not clear. It must be collaboration. BKPM will form an independent team. If it’s good, please use HIPMI. If it’s not good, don’t! Because this is a country, ”said Bahlil, who also served as the General Chair of HIPMI for the 2015-2019 period.
Investment is one of the instruments in promoting economic growth, in which consumption is the largest component in economic growth, namely 57-60%, while investment is 30%. According to Bahlil, employment is one of the determining factors in driving the consumption sector and leading to investment.
“In order to accelerate investment, BKPM has developed a strategy that we have to pick up the ball and an acceleration strategy to provide business licensing. Entrepreneurs are not allowed to regulate the state, the state which regulates entrepreneurs, but the state should not be arbitrary because these entrepreneurs are heroes who create jobs and increase state income, “said Bahlil.
On the same occasion, the Chairman of HIPMI Mardani H. Maming expressed his gratitude to the Head of BKPM for the cooperation. This collaboration is an implementation of the Jobs Bill (UU CK) related to how foreign investors can work together with Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). According to Maming, this is a new energy for increasing local and national entrepreneurs. Do not let foreign entrepreneurs have great economic power in Indonesia because they have all the existing facilities.
“We do not reject foreigners. We really welcome foreign investors, it’s just that we ask for intervention from the government, especially the BKPM so that it works together with national and regional entrepreneurs, so that they work together and hold hands together towards a better Indonesian economy, “said Maming. in his speech.
Writer : Anang
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