Indonesia and the Asian Narrative

Technological literacy and equitable access to digitization are the nation\'s most challenging tasks. Indonesia must be one of the reliable information agents of the Asian narrative.

This interesting data is not widely known to the public. In 1700-1850, Asia\'s contribution to global gross domestic product (GDP) almost reached 60 percent. After that, the Asian economy continued to weaken and bottomed in 1950 when its contribution was only 15 percent of the global economy.

After that, Asian economic activity slowly began to expand again. Today, the figure is approaching 40 percent, right back to the decade of the 1850s. The next projection is that in 2050 the contribution of the Asian economy will reach the equivalent of that during the golden period (18th-19th centuries), where its contribution to the world economy will reach 52 percent (Azis, 2021).