Indonesia will conduct the second World Conference on Creative Economy (WCCE) which will be planned to take place in Bali on November 2018. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Creative Economy Agency (Bekraf) said that the creative economy is one of the booster of economic growth and development in the future by cultivating Indonesian culture. The upcoming WCCE 2018 is expected to arrange a basic standard for creating a conducive environment to the growth of Indonesia’s creative economy.

The creative economy have been growing very impressively in this country and becoming an important contributor to social and economic development. Startup companies that based on information technology, such as Go-Jek, Traveloka, Tokopedia and BukaLapak that started their business in the last few years, now each value has exceeded more than one billion USD.

Those four Indonesian startup companies have already been becoming unicorns because each asset is one billion USD or more. Vice Chairman of Bekraf, Ricky J Persik, revealed that the creative economy sector has contributes 7.43 percent of the total GDP in Indonesia, or about 70 billion US dollars.

Approximately 17 million people are worked in the creative economy in Indonesia. "One of the challenges is how to bring this creative industry into a main booster of the country’s economic sector in the future," said Ricky. The creative economy is predicted to be one of the booster of economic growth and global development in the future.

Now the creative economy has became an economic booster with a capitalization of 2.25 trillion US dollars, which provides nearly 30 million jobs worldwide. The more important fact is that the contribution of the unicorn companies are not only looking to the company’s economic value and financial benefit, but have also been able to empower the local community in an inclusive way.

Indonesian Comics, Main Sector of Creative Economy

Indonesian comics are growing as the platform allows by the readers to read them through mobile phones or computers. Head of Creative Economy Board (Bekraf) Triawan Munaf feels optimistic that comics have great potential that will push the creative economy of the country.

"The synergy among the various sub-sectors of the creative economy will strengthen the industry, and the comics are the main sectors," Triawan said. The managers of The Intellectual Property of Indonesia which focus on unity of comic industry in Indonesian Comics Association (AsosiasiKomik Indonesia/AKSI).

Faza Meonk as Chairman of AKSI and Imansyah Lubis as the General Secretariat of AKSI admited that in a few years Indonesian comics have successfully collaborated with some other entertainment industries. In 2017, there are two Indonesian movies which are adapted from the comic book, "Valentine" and "Si Juki the Movie."

Moreover, currently the collaboration among comics with games, performing arts, and music has been conducted. "Indonesian Comics are the main of all that (creative economy industry). Comics are the first idea of character that then appear to become some characters in some stories. So the basic story is from comics," said Triawan.

The government promised to support constantly to push the growth of creative economy in Indonesia, including comics industry as one of its focus. Next year Indonesia will become a Country Focus in London Book Fair. Indonesian comics will be the one of the center of attention at London Book Fair next year.

Source: Antara

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