On June 27, 2019 at the Aimas Convention Center, Sorong Regency, West Papua Province, the Sulampua PDRB Conregional Event was held. This activity was attended by Head of North Sulawesi Province BPS, Head of North Sulawesi Province Nerwilis, and additional participants (Head of Provincial BPS Nerwilis Section, District / City BPS Head, District / City Nerwilis Section Head).
This conference carries the theme "Encouraging Economic Growth in the Region of Sulampua that is Fair and Sustainable through Increasing Competitiveness and Utilization of Regional Leading Resources". At this event, we listened to remarks from the Governor of West Papua Province, Drs. Dominggus Mandacan. Dominggus explained that to support the success of regional development programs, statistical data must be utilized. This is important to realize the dream of West Papua to become a province of nature conservation. Every effort to improve the economy should be based on sustainable in order to avoid pollution and environmental damage in Papua.
Next we followed the presentation from the first keynote speech, namely Deputy for Macroeconomic and Financial Coordination for the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Dr. Iskandar Simorangkir, SE, MA, entitled "Encouraging Economic Growth in the Region of Sulampua that is Equitable and Sustainable Through Increasing Competitiveness and Utilization of Regional Leading Resources". In his presentation, Iskandar conveyed several points, namely the development of the Indonesian economy, economic development of Sulampua, and the Government's Policy Strategy. Currently, global uncertainty is increasing due to the China-US trade war, normalization of interest rates, commodity price fluctuations, brexit issues, and the weakening of the European economy. The World Bank, OECD, and IMF correct the projected world economic growth. On the other hand, Indonesia's economic growth shows an increasingly positive upward trend amid uncertainty in the global economy, low and controlled inflation levels in accordance with the targets set in the APBN. The quality of growth is increasingly marked by poverty rates, unemployment rates and a declining Gini ratio. Indonesia's Economic Growth in the First Quarter of 2019 (5.07%) was higher than in the same period of the previous year, the investment climate was getting better, and the competitiveness rating increased (jumped 11 ranks to 32nd). Over the past 7 years, the economic growth of the Sulampua region is above the national economic growth. In the first quarter of 2019, in the Mapua region (Maluku and Papua) there was a decline in economic growth in line with the decline in production of key mining commodities such as gold, copper and LNG. Papua and West Papua are still the provinces with the highest poverty rates, although the unemployment rate in Papua is quite low. This indicates the low quality of human resources. Furthermore, the government's policy strategy is to encourage increased investment and exports through optimizing the impact of infrastructure development, improving the quality of human resources and labor, non-infrastructure investment, and strengthening the Global Value Chain.
The next presentation was presented by the Head of the Central Statistics Agency of the Republic of Indonesia, Dr. Suhariyanto, entitled "The Challenge of Sulampua Development". The level of poverty and inequality in Sulampua continues to decline, but the disparity is still high. In looking at the quality of economic growth, there are several indicators that we can see, namely poverty, inequality, unemployment, and the Human Development Index (HDI). BPS efforts in strengthening data include: 1) Disaggregation of PMTB, Currently the national physical investment data in GDP can only be broken down according to six types of capital goods, with the disaggregation of PMTB it is expected that a comprehensive and integrated physical investment database will be available namely PMTB according to the field businesses, institutions, and types of capital goods. 2) Inter Regional Input Output (IRIO), transactions recorded not only between economic sectors, but also between regions. Local Governments and stakeholders can use this data to identify leading sectors / products in each region. 3) Creative Economy and Tourism, slowing global economic growth is a challenge to be anticipated. Creative economy and tourism become the drivers of sustainable economic growth. The potential of ecraf and tourism as a new economic model relies on creative ideas, science, technology and culture.
Talkshow I of the 2019 Sulampua PDRB Conference moderated by Dr. Ir. Rully Wurarah, Academic Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Papua with the first guest speaker Sri Soelistyowati, MA, Deputy of Statistics and Statistical Analysis BPS RI, the second guest speaker Dr. Velix Vernando Wanggai, SIP, MPA, Director of Disadvantaged Areas, Transmigration, and Rural Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas), third speaker Bambang Kusmiarso, Chief Representative of Bank Indonesia of South Sulawesi Province who oversees Sulampua
