RRI.CO.ID, Jakarta - Indonesia’s Ministry of Creative Economy is strengthening efforts to expand capital market financing opportunities for creative economy players through collaboration with the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). The meeting marked a strategic partnership aimed at building a sustainable financing ecosystem that enables creative businesses to scale up and grow.

Indonesia's Minister of Creative Economy ,Teuku Riefky Harsya, emphasized that the creative economy is projected to become a new engine of national economic growth. Therefore, strengthening the ecosystem and improving understanding of capital market regulations are crucial for accelerating the sector’s development.

“The President has positioned the creative economy as a new engine of national economic growth, beginning in regions across Indonesia rather than being concentrated only in major cities. Indonesia’s creativity, innovation, and cultural strengths must be supported by a complete ecosystem, including access to financing and investment, so that creative economy players can grow sustainably,” Teuku Riefky said at Autograph Tower on Tuesday, June 9, 2026.

Investment realization in the creative economy sector reached Rp183 trillion in 2025, representing growth of 32.33 percent compared to the previous year. The sector also made a positive contribution to job creation and the strengthening of Indonesia’s middle class, employing approximately 27.4 million people.

“The Ministry of Creative Economy is focused on helping established creative entrepreneurs move to the next level and become national, even global-scale companies. Collaboration with the Indonesia Stock Exchange opens opportunities for more creative economy players to understand capital markets and leverage creativity as a source of investment,” the Minister said.

Previously, the Ministry of Creative Economy and the IDX collaborated on a roadshow program featuring the Go Public Workshop and a creative business coaching clinic called KreatIPO, designed to improve financial literacy and facilitate access to funding.

Acting President Director of the IDX, Jeffrey Hendrik, stated that the exchange is highly open to expanding participation from various sectors in the capital market, particularly creative economy subsectors that demonstrate strong investment growth potential.

“We welcome creative economy players to join the capital market, whether as investors seeking to benefit from market growth or as companies raising funds to expand their businesses,” he said.

The meeting is also expected to create opportunities for developing more adaptive Initial Public Offering (IPO) frameworks tailored to the creative industry, allowing promising companies to benefit from capital market acceleration on a sustainable basis. Such efforts would broaden the readiness of capital market education, business curation, and financing assistance programs.

“Today, we gained valuable insights from the Minister of Creative Economy that helped us better understand business models in the creative industry. We hope collaboration between the IDX and the Ministry can begin by strengthening education, awareness, and understanding among creative economy players, so that more creative entrepreneurs can eventually be listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange,” Jeffrey said.