Sandiaga Uno Strives For Warteg To Enter The International Market Through The Spice Up The World Program

Various Warteg model dishes served in an elegant style at the Aston Hotel Pontianak. (Between/Dedi)

JAKARTA - Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy (Menparekraf) Sandiaga Uno strives for Warung Tegal (Warteg) to enter the international market/go international through theSpace Up The World (SUTW) program.

"So we will participate in Warteg for overseas activities. We hope that this next visit of Warteg can be opened in New York, Germany, and there will also be many requests in the Middle East that we will facilitate, because Tegal has a high entrepreneurial spirit," Sandiaga said in his official statement quoted by Antara, Sunday.

He said, with the opening of Warteg abroad, not only promoting Tegal culinary but also opening up business opportunities and employment opportunities for the people of Indonesia.

Sandiaga in the Creative Regency/City (KaTa) activity at the Tegal Mayor's Office Hall, hopes that the Mayor of Tegal, Dedy Yon Supriyono, will immediately conduct a PMK3I (Indonesian Assessment of Creative City Regency) pick-up test so that there is a regional superior sub-sector that is selected and developed and can participate in the acceleration program.

The PMK3I picking test process is an effort to strengthen the creative economy ecosystem that must be carried out immediately, so that creative economy actors feel the benefits of the program.

The City of Tegal can immediately conduct a picking test in order to have a superior creative economy sub-sector and a support sub-sector. MSME actors in Tegal must continue to be motivated to increase turnover from their business. Starting from the herbal one, also culinary businesses including Warteg to processed seafood," he concluded.