Jokowi's Target At The End Of His Term: 30 Million MSMEs Enter The Digital Ecosystem And 500 Modern Cooperatives

President Joko Widodo. (Photo: Presidential Secretariat Press Bureau)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) again touched on the target of developing micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and cooperatives in the country. Jokowi wants all parties from the center to the regions to support the achievement of the predetermined targets.

First, Jokowi asked that the target of 20 million MSME players on boarding enter the digital ecosystem or marketplace must be achieved. Then increase to 24 million in 2023 and 30 million in 2024 or at the end of his term as president.

The former governor of DKI Jakarta admitted that he believed that the target could be achieved if all parties from the center to the regions had the same desire and worked hard.

"If all hard work has the same desire to achieve the targets we have set, I believe God willing, it can be done," he said at the virtual opening of the National Coordination Meeting for Digital Transformation and Complete Data Collection of Cooperatives and SMEs, Monday, March 28.

Second, Jokowi also reminded about the target of modern digital-based cooperatives that must be increased from 250 cooperatives this year, increasing to 400 in 2023 and 500 in 2024.

Third, Jokowi asked for the target of 1 million MSMEs on boarding to enter the e-catalog system of the Government Goods/Services Procurement Policy Institute (LKPP) to be completed this year.

Jokowi said that currently, only 17.5 million MSMEs have gone digital. However, Jokowi is not satisfied with this achievement and wants to increase more MSME players who enter the digital ecosystem.

"We must not only be spectators in the midst of massive digital trading activities. We must flood the marketplace, MSMEs, cooperatives must flood the marketplace with domestic products, our MSME products," he said.

But on the other hand, Jokowi admits that there are indeed many things that we have to fix from upstream to downstream so that Indonesian MSMEs can advance to class and become part of national and global supply chains. Starting from packaging to branding must be addressed to be more competitive.

For this reason, Jokowi said that he had signed Presidential Decree No. 2 of 2022 concerning the Development of National Entrepreneurship 2021-2024.

"I want our entrepreneurial economy to be better and there will be more new young entrepreneurs, young entrepreneurs who are productive, creative, and who are ready to advance Indonesian MSMEs and are ready to compete in the global market," he said.

Jokowi also asked the Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs Teten Masduki to present a single data on SMEs that lead to more focused development.

"We must have a single MSME database that can navigate the development of MSMEs to be more focused, to be more focused and sustainable, and to bring forward and prosperous generations of small business actors," he said.