After we discuss that Prabowo expects to make Indonesia as a developed country, there will be a question, so what are of his first 100 day programs? Every country in this world has a different culture and different way to show something, including in government. For such a big and populated country like Indonesia, it can be a little bit different compared to the rest of the world.
Just like other democratic countries, Indonesia’s president and officials have a term of office for 5 years or 1 period. But, do you know if they also focus on the first 100 days during the leadership? This is actually more familiar with the president and other elite officials since they get more exposure than ordinary staff.
Prabowo-Gibran’s First 100 Day Programs
So, if the first 100 day programs are important, what about Indonesia’s future leader Prabowo-Gibran? What program will become their priority for the first 3 months of their leadership? Here is the list.
1. Free Lunch Program for Kids
During presidential debates, Prabowo-Gibran always focuses on this first 100 day programs. Even for the general public, this free lunch program is like their trademark since they are the only candidates that propose this program.
For information, some parts of Indonesia, especially in remote and quite isolated areas, still battle with malnutrition cases. Ironically, the number of cases are quite high and are starting to raise concern among the general public during the high inflation.
Even though this program still stir controversies, we all know if the reason behind this program is very good and reasonable, to reduce the number of malnutrition in children.
2. Create Better and Affordable Healthcare
Indonesia might not be a developed country but it has quite good and organized healthcare. Even though it’s not perfect, it’s affordable so many people, especially from low income families can get better treatment.
One of the main problems in Indonesia healthcare actually comes from its infrastructure. As we explained before, many remote areas still struggle with malnutrition cases, this is actually the result of lack of proper facilities and healthcare workers.
Because of this first 100 day programs, Prabowo-Gibran already plans to give free medical treatment and build better hospitals with top facilities in every district in Indonesia.
3. Increase Agriculture
Indonesia also suffers from the rising price of staple food. This is actually ironic because in the past, this country was well known as an agricultural nation where they could meet their domestic needs and even export food to neighboring countries.
Due to the first 100 day programs, Prabowo-Gibran has plans to increase agriculture productivity with multiple methods. In the master plan, this program will start from a small to national scale.
4. Education
Beside stunting, Prabowo-Gibran also focuses on improving Indonesia education facilities. Just for your information, education infrastructure such as school, library, and etc in Indonesia is not equally distributed. Some areas, usually in the big cities in Java, have very good facilities meanwhile some (remote and isolated) areas have very poor and limited facilities.
As the first 100 day programs, the new leader has plans to build more integrated schools in many areas and renovate damaged schools so they can be used safely again.
5. Eradicate Poverty
Unfortunately, poverty is still one of the biggest problems in Indonesia. Even though this country already has multiple programs and regulations to eradicate poverty, the number of low income families seem to haven’t reduced significantly.
In the master plan, Prabowo-Gibran wants to continue President Jokowi’s social program to eradicate poverty in Indonesia. During the Jokowi era, Indonesia actually has few promising programs such as social welfare cards and business assistance for small entrepreneurs that will be continued by Probowo-Gibran.
6. Increase the Salaries of Civil Servants
This first 100 day programs actually became pro and cons to the general public and government. Why? Because for Indonesia, civil servants such as government staff, teachers, healthcare workers, police, and soldiers already have good and stable salaries.
Not to mention many of the civil servants still do not have good dedication and competence. This is the main reason why this plan is still controversial especially during the high inflation right now. The increased salary may cause the price of basic necessities like food to become more expensive than before.
7. Affordable Housing
Affordable housing has become one of the main necessities especially for the younger generation. Just like other millennials and Gen Z around the world, many Indonesians can’t afford a house because it’s too expensive. With this program, the government has plans to build affordable houses with low interest in different areas.
8. Increase GDP
For your information, taxes in Indonesia are quite high. But, in the future Prabowo still wants to establish a state revenue agency and increase GDP by 23%. With this plan, in the future there is a possibility of increasing taxes from certain sectors.
Those are the list of the first 100 day programs of Prabowo-Gibran’s leadership programs. All these programs above are listed on their official campaign website. We just hope that the plan runs smoothly and can be useful for the community.
