Aswin said that the East Kalimantan economy was influenced by a trade war between the United States and the People's Republic of China

• Online Seminar on Optimization of Geospatial-Based Area Productivity Management in East Kalimantan

Head of East Kalimantan Province Bappeda Prof. Dr. Ir. H. Aswin, MM representing the Governor of East Kalimantan delivered a presentation related to the East Kalimantan RKPD at an online seminar with the brave topic of East Kalimantan through the Video Conference in the GSCC meeting room of the East Kalimantan Bappeda Office on Thursday, July 16, 2020.
This activity was a collaboration from Mulawarman University, especially the Center for the Development and Spatial Planning (PKP2R) with the East Kalimantan Provincial Government. Present in this ACRA Chancellor of Mulawarman University Prof. Drs. H. Masjaya, Head of Bappenda Dra. Hj. Ismiati, Head of PKP2R Dr. Ir. Zulkarnain, MS, and Sumber Drs. Samedi Amulyo, MA, PhD.
Seminar which was attended by around 400 participants aimed to discuss policy strategies to optimize the area in order to support the downstreaming of regional resource products and to improve the region. So that it can, increase the source of regional development financing. On this occasion the Head of Bappeda Prov. East Kalimantan delivered a presentation on the East Kalimantan 2021 RKPD. He mentioned the framework of thought in the formulation of the RKPD priority in East Kalimantan, this might be suitable for what Mr. Zulkarnain thought, namely fostering downstreaming industries that were able to strengthen the people's economy and had an impact on improving the regional economy. basic industries are needed that can operate on the production scale. Therefore, the development of 2021 will be focused on the economic restoration of the strengthening of the trade and cooperative industry, the availability of basic infrastructure, the availability of access to education and health, and social reform. Aswin also conveyed that the current development challenges faced by the Province of East Kalimantan were globally influenced by the trade war between the United States and the People's Republic of China, and slowing global economic growth due to COVID-19. When viewed in the export map of East Kalimantan, the China has a significant role that is (28% of total non -oil and gas) is expected to withstand the prospects of East Kalimantan's economic growth in the medium term. The next challenge is the appointment of East Kalimantan as the capital city of the Republic of Indonesia which is quite influential that requires East Kalimantan to do (1) Acceleration of Economic Transformation through the Economic Development of the IKN Region with the Development of the Processing Industry Sector, Trade Industry, and Tourism which is environmentally friendly, (2) Acceleration Demands for the development needs of IKN-RI, and (4) Increasing the rehabilitation efforts of forest areas and mitigation and disaster risk reduction, such as forest and land fires, floods, landslides, etc.
Then the impact due to Pandemic Covid-19 is reduced production capacity, decreased economic growth rates, increasing layoffs and unemployment, increasing poverty rates, and increasing bad credit and decreased purchasing power of the community. "We can see that Pandemic Covin-19 has an impact on the slowdown in East Kalimantan's economic growth in the 1st quarter of 1.27% year on year, then an increase in unemployment in early 2020 to 6.88%., East Kalimantan poverty level until March increased to 6.10%. 8pt; "> (Bapp/Hum/Fat)