Jakarta, Aug. 16 -- President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) reiterated the need to come up with a newfangled strategy to face disruption in the fourth industrial revolution, better known as Industry 4.0.

"The world is not merely changing, but it is being disrupted," President Jokowi noted in his speech at the Annual Session of the People's Consultative Assembly of the Republic Indonesia 2019 on Friday.

President Jokowi assessed that disruption can lead to the creation of new business patterns and also spell an end to old ones.

"Some old business patterns have suddenly become obsolete. Moreover, new business patterns also emerge. Established skills have suddenly become irrelevant, and new skills have become the need of the hour," the president not...