Menteri Teten Bertemu Ketua KPPU, Ini Yang Dibahas

Coordinating Minister for SMEs Teten Masduki said (left) and KPPU Chairman M Fanshurullah Asa (right). (Photo: Theresia Agatha/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs (Kemenkop UKM) held an audience with the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) in order to improve the quality of cooperation in the development of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs (Menkop UKM) Teten Masduki said his party together with KPPU had discussed the pattern of MSME partnerships with industry players, mitigating trade monopoly in e-commerce and optimizing the realization of the procurement of materials and services that had to use local products as much as 40 percent.

"These points are what we want to work together and strengthen. Including, we also want to review and review investment policies so that large foreign investors can partner. So far, partnerships are still strategic, we want to encourage MSMEs to enter the industrial supply chain that is the core business," said Minister Teten to reporters at the Kemenkop UKM office, Jakarta, Monday, February 19.

In addition, Teten said that his hearing was to discuss the cooperation of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Kemenkop UKM and the KPPU, which is known to have just changed commissioners at the KPPU.

"Earlier, we discussed the continuation of the MoU cooperation between the Kemenkop UKM and the KPPU. Incidentally, this is a new commissioner," he said.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) M Fanshurullah Asa said that his party had asked the Kemenkop UKM to immediately integrate MSME data in Indonesia and build a joint commitment to maintain the sustainability of MSMEs in price competition or predatory pricing in the digital market (e-commerce).

"We have to move whether the regulations are in the digital market law, whether step by step, whether the Presidential Regulation (Perpres) is a Ministerial Regulation (Permen) because this is important to maintain. Don't let the industry enter all villages, imagine that it can be a pity for the community to only become a consumer base," he said.

Fanshurullah asked the Kemenkop UKM to give his party the authority to be able to give higher sanctions to industry players who violate the rules.

"We hope this can be increased, so the fine for big businesses, which was previously only 10 percent of turnover, is 5 percent middle. We want this to be increased," he added.