Erick Thohir Wants MSMEs To Sell At BUMN Offices To Gas Stations

SOE Minister Erick Thohir. (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Erick Thohir wants to expand the market reach of Indonesian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

One way is to make the offices of state-owned companies and gas stations to market MSME products.

This was conveyed by the Special Staff of the Minister of SOEs Arya Sinulingga. He said, his party will continue to open space for MSMEs to sell in SOE assets so that they can advance to class.

"We also use all places for MSMEs to sell their products. So now we use the rest area owned by SOEs, until Pertamina gas stations we will open space for MSME friends to be able to sell directly there," he said in the BNI Webinar Lifting MSMEs Go Global, Friday, October 6.

Arya said that so far MSME products have been in the Pertamina gas station rest area. Like in Rest Area KM 88 Cipularang, Rest Area KM 234 Trans Sumatra. Not only in the rest area, BUMN also encourages MSME products to be in theverse machine.

Furthermore, Arya said the initial targets would be deployed in strategic places and BUMN offices.

If possible, he continued, it will be expanded again to other locations abroad.

Even up to the banking machine, we will make it in several BUMN offices. This is the idea that later the BUMN offices will be many MSMEs that can sell. Which later, if this is successful, we will also try abroad, for example, we will make a versioning machine abroad," he said.

For your information, currently the MSME conversational machine is already at six points. First, at the Ministry of SOEs as many as 1 unit of BRI.

Second, there is 1 unit at Gambir Station from PLN. Third, there is one unit at Juanda Station from Pertamina.

Furthermore, at Soekarno-Hatta Airport, which is distributed in each terminal, namely, at Terminal 1 there is one unit from Telkom, at Terminal 2 there is one unit from BNI, and at Terminal 3 there is one unit from PLN.

Arya said that he would then also be encouraged in various assets belonging to BUMN. For example, hotels that provide space for locally fostered MSME products can be marketed.

"So we also cooperate with the assets, hotels, so we use everything that SOEs have for the development of MSMEs," he said.