The Deputy Head of Bank Indonesia (BI) for South Sulawesi (Sulsel), Wahyu Purnama, revealed five priority sectors that must be strengthened to drive economic growth to reach eight percent in 2029. He conveyed this following President Prabowo Subianto's target of bringing national economic growth to 8% in the next five years. "To achieve 8%, there are five business fields that need to be improved in an extraordinary way in South Sulawesi," said Wahyu during a journalist training at the Novotel Malioboro Hotel in Yogyakarta, Tuesday (6/24/2025). The five sectors, said Wahyu, start from the manufacturing and downstream sectors which are considered strategic to drive the added value of the local industry. Then the second is agriculture, but not only from the upstream side, but also needs to be pushed to its downstream. "But the direction is not only to build agriculture at its upstream, but must drive and develop its downstream," he said. Next, the third sector is mining, although according to him this sector is limited to the South Sulawesi region. Fourth, trade, and fifth is construction.
He said that these five sectors must be optimally boosted so that the growth target can be achieved, considering the quite tough global challenges. Even so, Wahyu is optimistic that inflation control can still be done. Previously, the Head of the South Sulawesi Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Aryanto, revealed that the South Sulawesi economy in the first quarter of 2025 grew positively by 5.78% (yoy). From the production side, growth in the first quarter of 2025 was supported by the agriculture, trade, education services, and processing industry sectors. Meanwhile, from the expenditure side, the main drivers are household consumption and exports. Aryanto also said that South Sulawesi is included in the top five provinces with the highest economic growth nationally. "South Sulawesi is among the five provinces with the largest economic growth," said Aryanto.
