Surabaya (ANTARA) – The Governor of the National Defense Institute of the Republic of Indonesia, Andi Widjajanto, explained Indonesia’s future potential as a speaker at general studio 2022-2023 at the University of Surabaya on Thursday.

“Indonesia has the potential for power growth in the future as long as it can take advantage of the demographic bonus,” Andi Widjajanto said during the activity on “Diversity of Nationalism, Technology and Global Geopolitics.” .

Andi said that if you look at the Indonesian population, the key lies in two groups, namely students aged 10 to 35 who will be the key to the demographic bonus, and those aged 20 and under, or young people who go digital. native.

“The difficulty of Generation X must be able to give a place to digital natives regarding digital knowledge. Our task is to bring out digital defense native take advantage of the demographic bonus later. Digital Native is our mainstay,” he said.

Moreover, the group that determines the quality of Indonesia’s demographic bonus is women. In Indonesia, 49.5% of the population are women. “There are more women in this room. Ubaya has taken the right steps to advance the quality of Indonesia’s demographic bonus,” he said.

According to him, out of 20 large economy countries, Indonesia is currently only ranked 16th. In terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Indonesia is still far behind these countries. However, it is expected to follow in 2038.

“Indonesia will be stable in that year, now we are in the middle. If we succeed in suppressing inflation and reducing debt, then our economy is still stable. If we are stable, in the next three years, we we can overtake South Korea to become number one.” four in the world under China, the United States and India,” he said,

Indonesia’s current position, he said, is increasingly seen by the world after the successful holding of the G20 summit in Bali some time ago. At this time, the Pandemic Fund was established in Bali

“Indonesia has participated in overcoming global problems. We don’t have any problems, so they are looking for solutions to Indonesia,” he said.

In the meantime, what to watch out for, Andi Widjajanto said, is 2023. President Joko Widodo advised us to be careful that year.

“Be careful with 2023, the president said. There is a factor in the war between Russia and Ukraine. War means uncertainty. The world will slow down in 2023, so will Indonesia. The world will experience a recession in 2023, but not Indonesia,” he said. said.