Kadin Sets Bottom Up Agenda Ahead of 2025 National Leadership Meeting
Poin Penting
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JAKARTA, Investortrust.id — Kadin Indonesia prepares to hold its 2025 National Leadership Meeting on Tuesday, Nov 25, 2025 in Jakarta by shifting to a bottom up format to align business recommendations with regional and sector needs, a move expected to sharpen policy input for the new administration.
The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, or Kadin Indonesia, set the new structure so that its 12 coordinating vice chairpersons would first conduct national coordination meetings across 38 provinces before presenting recommendations at the meeting.
Chairman of Kadin Indonesia Anindya Bakrie said the process ensured every sector, including economic affairs, infrastructure, and organizational matters, contributed directly to the national agenda.
"The National Leadership Meeting this time is slightly changed so that the approach is not top down, but bottom up. So the Coordinating Vice Chairpersons, there are twelve of them, carried out the national coordination meetings first," he said.
He added that the approach allowed detailed, thematic discussions with relevant ministries as well as regional and association leaders.
"So we do not focus on ceremony, but we focus on substance that is naturally more creative, inclusive, and so forth," Anindya said.
He explained that one of the meeting’s central themes was Indonesia Incorporated, a framework promoted by President Prabowo Subianto to strengthen collaborative economic strategy.
"This is not our concept, but this is what the President promotes, so that in January this year during the Consolidation Assembly we said Indonesia Incorporated is Kadin working together," he said.
He emphasized that the business community would expand on the theme of working collaboratively to improve employment, welfare, and national independence during the meeting.
Kadin also acknowledged the government’s success in maintaining growth above 5 percent and inflation at 2.86 percent, although structural reform remained necessary to escape the middle income trap.
Anindya pointed to the high incremental capital output ratio, or ICOR, which needed to decline so investment spending could produce stronger growth.
He highlighted logistics costs at 14.6 percent of GDP, the declining share of manufacturing due to deindustrialization, and persistent labor mismatches that had increased youth unemployment.
"This is where we think in the National Leadership Meeting, the combination of entrepreneurs, economists, input from associations, groups, regions, will likely include comments about expanding employment and welfare," he said.
He said government programs such as Free Nutritious Meals, livable housing, vocational training for 100,000 participants, and apprenticeships would remain relevant to Kadin’s policy track.
"We must do more with the same. That is productivity, so we must think about performance based pay, energy efficiency, basically our productivity must be high and competitive," he said.
He added that stronger investment flows remained essential to reinforce domestic consumption and government spending.
He also highlighted innovation and industrialization issues, including the labor market impact of artificial intelligence.
"There were 23 million jobs lost from AI before 2023, but there were 46 million new jobs. So we need to understand how to respond to this," he said.
He concluded that the meeting would focus on employment, productivity, investment, industry and innovation, and trade.
"These are what we want to study together so that the inputs are truly concrete and aligned with the results of discussions with our constituents as well as the government," he said.