Teten Masduki Encourages Birdcage Craftsmen To Manage NIB

Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs Teten Masduki/PHOTO VIA ANTARA

JAKARTA - Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs Teten Masduki encourages bird cage craftsmen who are members of the Mekarsari Jaya Mandiri Association of Bamboo Entrepreneurs and Craftsmen to take care of Business Identification Numbers (NIB).

"We will continue to encourage the transformation from informal to formal business. Currently, business legality is sufficient with NIB," said Coordinating Minister for SMEs Teten Masduki while visiting the Kubangsari Jaya Bird Cage industry, Mekarsari Village, Selaawi District, Garut Regency, West Java, quoted by Antara from a written statement. , Sunday, December 19.

By having an NIB as a formal business, he continued, the crafters will get many benefits and conveniences, including access to financing, markets, and other business facilities.

One of the access to cheap financing is like the People's Business Credit (KUR) with a very low interest rate of only three percent.

Not only that, Teten also encourages craftsmen to consolidate themselves into a single legal entity called a cooperative. Because the association or association is not a legal entity.

"Currently, there is no more financial assistance in the form of grants. We will strengthen the cooperative's capital and institutions," said Coordinating Minister for Cooperatives Teten Masduki.

On the same occasion, one of the craftsmen named Cecep Saripudin explained that the number of craftsmen who joined the association was 2000 craftsmen with a total production of around 300 sets of bird cages per day.

Cecep admitted that his party did not have any problems regarding the labor for making bird cages, raw materials, and also marketing.

"We train village youths who can already assist with their duties. It's not too difficult because this is a profession that has been passed down from generation to generation," said Cecep.

Likewise with the marketing of bird cage products from Mekarsari Village, which is said to have expanded to Jakarta, Bogor, Bandung, Central Java, and East Java. He only stated that the obstacle faced was business capital.