Jakarta, March 2 -- President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) highlighted the importance of the teachers' roles in realizing the Golden Indonesia vision by 2045 on the country's centenary.

While opening the 23rd Indonesian Teachers Association (PGRI) Congress, the president noted that Indonesia will undergo at least three leadership terms before reaching 2045.

"Respectable teachers, I never get tired of reminding you all that Indonesia has a golden opportunity to leap forward and become an advanced country within the next three leadership terms," the president stated, as observed by online means on Saturday.

He said that Indonesia's future as an advanced country is not merely empty assumptions as international organizations, such as the Organisat...