In Front Of Jokowi, Erick Thohir Pamer Himbara Has Disbursed Rp1,600 Trillion To MSMEs

JAKARTA - Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Erick Thohir said the total financing disbursed by the Association of State-Owned Banks (Himbara) to MSMEs reached IDR 1,600 trillion until September 2023.

This was conveyed by Erick Thohir in front of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) at the opening of the 2023 Explo Expreneur MSME in Jakarta, Thursday, December 7.

Erick said, SOEs continue to support MSMEs to advance to class. One of them is by entering a digital ecosystem. With the financing provided by SOEs, it is hoped that it can make MSMEs go digital.

Himbara, which consists of Bank Mandiri, Bank BRI, Bank BNI and Bank BTN, continued Erick, has succeeded in encouraging 30 million MSMEs into the digital ecosystem.

"Through access to financing Himbara banks, where to this day we have given almost Rp. 1,600 trillion until September 2023," he said at the opening of the 2023 MSME Expo Expreneur in Jakarta, Thursday, December 7.

Of the amount of financing disbursed by Himbara, said Erick, PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk, or BRI is the state-owned bank with the largest funding allocation. The value disbursed by BRI reached 83 percent of the total Rp1,600 trillion.

On this occasion, Erick sued the absorption of MSME products by the state company through the PaDi UMKM ecosystem to record a transaction value of IDR 37.2 trillion as of October this year.

"Pak (President Jokowi) in the SOE procurement ecosystem, which we are targeting below Rp. 300 million, must be MSMEs, which are included in the PaDi MSME platform which we launched since 2019 at that time," he said.