Could Become a World Level City of Animation

CIMAHI – Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy (Menparekraf) Sandiaga Uno said that Cimahi City has the opportunity to be named the City of Animation at world level. Like Bandung which has been named one of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network creative cities.

“Who knows, because Bandung has become a UNESCO city of design, perhaps this (Cimahi) could become a city of animation at world level,” said Sandiaga Uno after attending the 2024 Creative Regency/City (KaTa) Workshop which was held at Alam Wisata Cimahi , Jalan Colonel Masturi, Cimahi City, West Java, on Thursday (4/4/2024).

The Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy said that Cimahi is only a small city but has an attraction due to the existence of its worldwide creative industry. Starting from animation, video, culinary to fashion, so that since 2021 it has been named a Creative City in Indonesia.

“Cimahi is a small city that has an attraction. We can improve it because it has become a creative city in Indonesia. We are grateful that Cimahi has been designated as a creative city. There are superior subsectors, namely animation, video and fashion,” explained Sandiaga.

As the creative industry in Cimahi City continues to develop to world level, said Sandiaga Uno, job opportunities will become increasingly wide open. So the advantages that Cimahi City has must continue to be developed and the hope is that it can become a world-class City of Animation.

“So the hope is that this can create lots of job opportunities and Cimahi figures, young figures, can also create businesses that introduce Cimahi City more internationally,” said the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy.

To help develop it, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy (Kemenparekraf) will continue to promote the 2024 Creative District/City Workshop (KaTa), which is a creative district/city development program to increase innovation and entrepreneurship for creative economy actors in all regions in Indonesia.

“This is our third location for the roadshow. We want to understand what the need for (creative economy actors) is increasing,” said Sandiaga Uno.

On that occasion, Sandiaga Uno provided motivation to creative economy players in Cimahi City. He asked local entrepreneurs not to never give up even though they have experienced failure.

“Let’s apply 3G, namely gercep, aka fast movement, geber, which means joint movement, and gaspol,” said Sandiaga Uno.

(tsa)