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Home Affairs Ministry Urges Regions to Identify Barriers to Economic Growth

From CNN Indonesia · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Indonesia’s Home Affairs Ministry urged regional monitoring teams to identify the root causes of obstacles to local economic growth and supervise solutions.
  • The teams must verify regional data, coordinate with local governments and select at least three priority measures from nine proposed actions.
  • Secretary-General Tomsi Tohir said interventions should reflect each region’s distinct economic conditions and called for local statistics officials to help validate the data.

Indonesia’s Home Affairs Ministry is telling regional economic teams to do more than collect statistics. They must identify the problems holding back growth, decide how to address them and follow the solutions through.

Secretary-General Tomsi Tohir delivered the message at a meeting in Ancol, Jakarta, on Friday, where officials prepared and presented a work plan for teams working toward an economic growth target of 8 percent.

“Those responsible for each region must not merely collect data. We must identify the points needed to solve the region’s economic problems,” Tomsi said.

The teams will monitor economic growth while taking account of the conditions and characteristics of each area. Their responsibilities cover provinces, regencies and cities, and include coordinating monitoring, collecting information, verifying data submitted by local governments, and conducting analysis and evaluation for senior officials.

Those responsible for each region must not merely collect data. We must identify the points needed to solve the region’s economic problems.

· Tomsi TohirThe Home Affairs Ministry secretary-general described the role regional economic teams should play.

They will also assist local governments through nine concrete measures: speeding up regional and national budget spending, accelerating government infrastructure projects, controlling staple-food prices, preventing illegal exports and imports, expanding employment, increasing agricultural, fisheries and livestock production according to local potential, raising manufacturing output, and simplifying business permits.

Each region must select at least three measures considered decisive for its growth. The priorities should match the region’s potential and its main economic problems.

Tomsi rejected a uniform approach. “Not every region needs the same medicine. The diagnosis is certainly different, so the intervention must also be different,” he said. He asked regional offices of Statistics Indonesia to join coordination between the teams and local governments, helping ensure that official data reflects conditions on the ground.

Not every region needs the same medicine. The diagnosis is certainly different, so the intervention must also be different.

· Tomsi TohirTomsi emphasized that economic policies should reflect each region’s distinct conditions and problems.
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Originally published by CNN Indonesia in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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