Directorate General Of Customs And Excise Strengthens Support For Export-Oriented MSMEs

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The Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DJBC) of the Ministry of Finance continues to provide export support to business actors, especially Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).

Director of Customs Facilities DJBC Padmoyo Tri Wikanto said the export MSME support programs included Export Clinic, Interfirm Linkage, Logistics Solutions, and the use of the Customs laboratory hall.

"This Export Clinic Program is carried out by providing education, literacy, assistance, and coordination by DJBC to MSMEs, both those that have been exported, so that their exports will increase into independent exports, as well as MSMEs that are just starting exports," he said in a press statement, Tuesday, June 20.

Padmoyo explained, for the Interfirm Linkage program, it was carried out through an increase in business-linked-based partnerships between MSMEs and export-oriented companies, namely companies in bounded areas with Ease of Importing Export Destinations (section of supply chains) facilities that reached mutual relations (continuous partnerships).

"This interfirm linkage is an indirect export, we are bridging large companies in industrial areas and braided areas," he said.

Padmoyo added, for the Logistics Solutions program, the Ministry of Finance has a National Logistics Ecosystem (NLE) program as a solution to assist MSMEs in reducing logistics costs.

Our logistics solution has value chains, because this logistics is something that sounds like a high-cost economy and expensive transportation. Now maybe the eastern area (side) there with the sea toll road so that how products from eastern Indonesia can compete so that they can export cheaply, so the price of goods can still be competitive if exported, now this is one of our logistic solutions we can suppress it (logistical costs)," he explained.

Meanwhile, the use of the DJBC laboratory hall is used to carry out goods checks such as the quality of materials, metal contamination, the composition of materials and others.

"We have a laboratory hall that we use to test products such as food products, beverage products, metal products, content and so on. This already exists in several areas such as Medan, Jakarta and Surabaya. We also have service units (satpel) throughout Indonesia for laboratory halls," he concluded.