We Don’t Need State-Owned Hotels

Jakarta –

Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto said state-owned hotels were not needed. He also asked BUMN Minister Erick Thohir’s views regarding this matter.

“We don’t need state-owned hotels. What do you think, Mr Erick? But I ask for your advice. I want to take a reasonable approach, I want to get as much advice as possible from anywhere and I want the best input,” said Prabowo at Mandiri Investment Forum 2024 in Jakarta, Tuesday (5/3/2024).

Presidential candidate number 2 said that the party is open to anyone who wants to run a business and wants the country to be able to get investment from anywhere. Therefore, according to Prabowo, the private sector must be given space. He also said that BUMN needed to be rationalized.

“BUMN, Mr Erick, we have to rationalize it. If there is no strategic reason, perhaps we should have a program to rationalize the privatization of BUMN,” he said.

He said the state could make regulations and monitor. The state must also take strategic decisions in strategic sectors.

“For example, why do we have to be present in every sector of the economy? I mean, I think in the 1950s the government had to play a pioneering role, but now we can allow the private sector to be more dominant and dominant,” he explained.

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