PORTALJABAR, BANDUNG CITY - The Development Planning Conference (Musrenbang) of the Regional Government of West Java Province was held in Bandung City, today, Monday (22/4/2024).

This Musrenbang was held in the context of preparing the Regional Long Term Development Plan (RPJPD) for 2025-2045 and the Regional Work Plan (RKPD) for 2025.

Acting Governor of West Java Bey Machmudin hopes that the musrenbang which is taking place today can be the starting point for more advanced development in West Java.

"The implementation of this Musrenbang is an important stage as a basis for planning the development of West Java Province for the next 20 years," said Bey Machmudin when opening the West Java Province Musrenbang at Trans Luxury Hotel Bandung.

Bey also emphasized the linkage and consistency between planning, budgeting, implementation and supervision in the development process.

He said, in the next 20 years, the world will experience major changes and of course it will affect various aspects of life such as economic, political, social and environmental.

There are nine West Java megatrends in 2045 which are predicted to have a significant impact, namely demographics, natural resources, middle class population, international finance, urbanization, climate change, geopolitics and geoeconomics, international trade and technological disruption.

One of the issues that has emerged, in realizing the Golden West Java 2045, is the use of the demographic bonus which has already started and will peak in 2030 with a productive population of 37.63 million people or 66.26 percent.

"This demographic bonus is expected to become a quality and productive development resource," said Bey.

"Therefore, careful preparation, such as appropriate investment, wise policies, and sustainable actions are needed to strengthen this positive potential," he added.

So Musrenbang is important to gather concrete input from various parties, including DPRD leaders, Regents/Mayors throughout West Java, elements of regional apparatus, district/city Bappeda, universities, and other elements of society.

Bey Machmudin conveyed a number of Macro Development Indicator achievements that West Java managed to achieve in 2023 on that occasion, starting from the Human Development Index (HDI) which increased 0.61 points to 74.24 points compared to 2022.

Then the Economic Growth Rate slowed by 0.45 points to 5 percent compared to 2022, but exceeded the target of 4.35 percent.

The Open Unemployment Rate (TPT) fell 0.87 points to 7.44 percent compared to 2022.

Then the poverty rate percentage will decrease from 8.06 percent in 2022 to 7.62 percent.

Income inequality or Gini ratio will be 0.425 points compared to 2022 of 0.417 points.

GDP per capita increased to IDR 52.65 million compared to IDR 49.14 million in 2022.

"Of the six regional indicators, four indicators increased compared to 2022," he said.

Meanwhile, there are six strategic issues for regional development in 2025-2045, namely green and blue economy, quality of human resources, gaps in development and basic service infrastructure, sustainability of environmental carrying capacity and capacity, sustainability of spatial planning and quality of government governance.

Apart from that, there are other big issues accompanying development, especially in 2025, including the 2024-2026 RPD (transition period), Law No. 1 of 2022 concerning Government and Regional Financial Relations, the political transition year and uncertain economic conditions that are influenced by the economy. global and national.

"So the theme of West Java development in 2025 is equitable development to support the progress of the people of West Java," he said.

Next, Bey Machmudin explained the West Java macro indicator targets for 2025 which he hopes can be achieved.

The HDI is targeted to reach 74.39 points, the Economic Growth Rate is between 4.96 percent to 5.37 percent, the Open Unemployment Rate (TPT) is between 6.42 percent to 6.99 percent, the percentage of poor people is between 5.85 percent to 6. .46 percent.

Then the Gini Ratio Index is 0.419 to 0.425 points and per capita income is targeted to reach IDR 57.14 million.

"Hopefully this musrenbang will be a valuable forum for gathering input to perfect the 2025-2045 RPJPD and 2025 RKPD so that they become quality guidelines and are well implemented," hoped Bey.

Bureaucracy has an impact

Minister for Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform Abdullah Azwar Anas emphasized that bureaucracy has an impact. This means that the bureaucratic process must have an effect that can be felt for more progressive development.

"We can no longer be trapped in piles of paper, but must reach productivity," said Azwar Anas.

"The President hopes that this bureaucracy will be agile because a lot of our work should be done in one or three steps, but today it is up to six steps," he added.

Therefore, said Azwar, bureaucratic reform is the key so that Indonesia can compete with other developed countries.

In this Musrenbang, the Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform wants to improve overlapping policies in the regional government bureaucracy because it can cause human resources and government budget resources to be wasted.

Thus it is inevitable that business process simplification is needed. Apart from digitalization, the bureaucratic chain must also be made effective.

"Musrenbang should not just be a technocratic process, but must have an impact. We must change the paradigm from input orientation to outcome orientation," stressed Azwar Anas.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the West Java DPRD, Taufik Hidayat, said that all development targets will only be achieved through collaboration and togetherness between stakeholders.

"As is our agreement, the Vision for West Java in 2045, namely the Most Advanced, World Competitive and Sustainable West Java Province. We can only realize this vision if all stakeholders are able to collaborate, coordinate in a harmonious orchestration and support each other," said Taufik.