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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Currently Indonesia is managing to create a world class vegetarian tourist destination following the growing number of the vegetarian community tourist who come to Indonesia to enjoy Indonesian culture, especially from India and China. "The world’s vegetarian community are about 500 million people, the largest members are in India which are about 350 million, and in China which are about 50 million. Both of countries are included on the Top 5. The major foreign tourist are from China, Europe, Australia, Singapore and India," said Tourism Minister Arief Yahya.

The most tourists who visit to Indonesia are from China, which are reaching 2.2 million, with the growth is 42 percentand the most foreign income that could be gained compared to other foreign tourists. Basically, tourists from China are on the top according tothe amount, sustainability or growth, and spread or earnings of foreign income.

Starting this year, tourists from India are ranked number fifth on the Top 5 of foreign tourist. Indonesia has targeted to gain 700 thousand Indian tourists, and the growth of 40 percent of tourists from this country. Last year the amount of tourists from India which visit to Indonesia are about 485,000 tourists. They were more than the amount of tourist from Korea, and this year will be more than tourist from Japan.

Indonesian vegetarian community has digitally managed 10 vegetarian tourist destinations, including those which already launched in Belitung, Banten, Tomohon, Batam and Pontianak. The community also has mentioned 10 vegetarian food in Indonesia, such as: gado-gado, tamarind soup (sayurasem), fried rice, and pecel.

"Initially when tourist asked are there any vegetarian tourist destinations in Indonesia, one of them is in Belitung, which is a tourism village with organic garden. There are also 10 kinds of favorite vegetarian food, such as gado-gado, fried rice, and pecel," said Arief. According to Oliver’s Travel’s The Global Vegetarian Index, Indonesia’s current position is on 16th out of 183 vegetarian friendly countries or entering on the Top 20 Vegetarian-Friendly Countries.

On the Top 20 Vegetarian Friendly Countries, Seychelles are on the top, the second is Thailand, and the third is Malaysia. The amount of vegetarian restaurants in Indonesia are 438 restaurants, while Malaysia has 1,185 restaurants, Thailand has 908 restaurants, and Singapore has 654 restaurants.

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Indonesia expects to be a role models of muslim world fashion in 2020. For that reason, the Ministry of Industry try to make it happen by initiating a step, which unifies the interest of the fashion industry stakeholders.

"We are now exploring, and coordinating with the association to make it happen," said Director General of Small and Medium Industry (IKM) at the Ministry of Industry, Gati Wibawaningsih. According to Gati, associations from various business sectors such as IKM of apparel, accessories, shoes, and bags, will be gathered to build and realize the expectation of the Indonesian fashion industry.

Not only apparel, Gati said that other fashion products such as shoes, bags, makeup also need to support to realize the expectation. Gati said, to become the role models of Muslim fashion world, the export of Indonesian Muslim products must be the highest in the world. Unfortunately, there is no different of the Harmonized System (HS) code of fashion products between muslim and non muslim products.

"Well, here we are, we would like to separate HS for Muslim fashion products to get the value of the exports. Now our exports are below Bangladesh, Pakistan and other countries, but that is not real," said Gati. Gati continued, However, if the separation of HS is not successful, then the calculation will be re-combined with non-Muslim products.

Meanwhile, The Minister of Industry, Airlangga Hartarto, reminded Indonesia as the biggest Muslim population in the world potentially dominate the Muslim fashion industry of the world. Indonesia is also one of the top five countries of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (IOC) as the biggest Muslim fashion exporter in the world, after Bangladesh, Turkey, Morocco and Pakistan.

Thus, it is very feasible for Indonesia to be the role modelsof Muslim fashion in the world in 2020. Airlangga also appreciated the event of Indonesia Fashion Week (IFW) 2018 which provides a special hall for Muslim fashion products.

"I really appreciate to APPMI, because at this exhibition event there is one special hall for Muslim fashion. This is certainly an effort from APPMI to participate in realizing Indonesia become the role models of Muslim world fashion," He said.

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