Hasto Reveals Megawati's Directives to Face Multidimensional Crisis
Secretary General of PDI Perjuangan Hasto Kristiyanto has revealed the directives from PDIP General Chair Megawati Soekarnoputri regarding the current global geopolitical situation.
Megawati, Hasto said, is pushing for national readiness to face the threat of a multidimensional crisis triggered by geopolitical tensions and ongoing global wars, particularly in the Middle East.
“Indonesia has a history of success in emerging from the grip of crises, such as in 2004 when under Mother Megawati’s leadership, the entire debt to the IMF was successfully repaid,” Hasto said in Yogyakarta on Thursday, 9 April 2026.
Therefore, according to Hasto, one important measure for the Prabowo Subianto administration in addressing the current global situation is to prioritise budget efficiency.
“Such as cutting non-urgent expenditures and redirecting them to productive spending to stimulate the grassroots economy,” he said.
Hasto reminded that the efficiency measures taken by the government should not trap or burden the people. Instead, they should maximise existing resources.
“Still maintain food sovereignty so that the people’s stomachs do not feel hungry amid the uncertainty of world commodity prices,” Hasto stated.
PDI Perjuangan, he said, has also mobilised all regional heads from the party and its legislative members to always engage directly. One of them is to help increase the community’s agricultural production capacity.
This includes the application of applied technology for rice farmers on water-scarce land, as well as a massive campaign to plant ten rice companion crops such as cassava and various types of tubers as a step towards more resilient food diversification.
“We are encouraging our regional heads and legislative members to create momentum in the people’s economy, the people’s production capacity such as in the agricultural sector,” he said. Hasto stated that if water is limited on that land, they encourage the use of applied technology. “Because rice can still grow with sufficient water, not in excess,” he said.
In addition to food security, Hasto said Megawati is also urging the central government to create a healthy investment climate through the enforcement of just law, certainty of land status, and simplification of licensing bureaucracy.
“New investments are the key to increasing state revenue to offset the potential rise in subsidy burdens due to global energy price fluctuations,” he said.
Megawati, Hasto said, also asked regional heads to strengthen labour-intensive programmes so that purchasing power at the grassroots level remains maintained through sustainable income increases.
“In the current economic situation, the government needs to review policies on cutting transfers to regions in order to maintain economic stability at the local level,” he said.
PDI Perjuangan is also pushing for the implementation of fiscal resilience policies so that every region has sufficient room to manoeuvre to facilitate its own people’s economic drive.
According to Hasto, preparations to face the crisis as an impact of war must not be delayed and must be carried out immediately through policy synchronisation between central and regional governments that prioritises the interests of public productivity. “It must be prepared from the outset (in facing the crisis threat),” he said.