Prabowo and Luhut Hold Private Meeting at Palace, Discuss Mitigating Impacts of Global Conflicts
President Prabowo Subianto held a private meeting with the Chairman of the National Economic Council (DEN), Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta. The meeting discussed domestic economic developments as well as global dynamics.
The moment of the meeting was uploaded on the State Secretariat’s account on Tuesday (21/4/2026). The two were seen meeting in a room inside the Merdeka Palace building.
“National economic activity is still considered very well maintained, but vigilance is still needed. The government is preparing anticipatory steps to respond to the impacts of global conflicts while maintaining the momentum of growth,” wrote Cabinet Secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya.
Teddy said that Luhut also conveyed several schemes in efforts to maintain consumer purchasing power and safeguard the state budget (APBN). This included strengthening govtech.
“The Chairman of the National Economic Council conveyed several policy scenarios to maintain public purchasing power and ensure the APBN remains under control, including through strengthening government digitalisation (govtech),” he said.
Teddy mentioned that the policy of digitalising social assistance, which was recently implemented, was also discussed in the meeting with Prabowo. The government, continued Teddy, is pushing for the accuracy of social assistance distribution to the public.
“Social assistance digitalisation is currently being piloted in Banyuwangi and will be expanded to 42 districts/cities. This step is expected to increase transparency and targeting accuracy in social assistance distribution,” he stated.
In addition, Prabowo and Luhut also discussed the opportunities for Indonesia to become a new global market amid global conflicts.
“In line with global dynamics, the government is also looking at opportunities to attract capital flows, especially from the Middle East, through accelerating the formation of the Indonesia Financial Center to strengthen national investment attractiveness,” said Teddy.