PLN Development UMK Sells 1,925 Products At The 2024 Inacraft Exhibition

Illustration (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

PT PLN (Persero) recorded 51 micro and small businesses (UMK) fostered to sell 1,925 products at the 2024 Internationalhandicraft Trade Fair (Inacraft) exhibition on February 28-3 March at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC).

PLN Executive Vice President of Corporate Communications and TJSL Gregorius Adi Trianto in his statement in Jakarta, Wednesday, said product sales at the Inacraft exhibition increased by 10.4 percent from the total sales of similar exhibitions in 2023.

"In Inacraft this time, products from MSMEs assisted by PLN are exhibited and this exhibition is once again helping with marketing so that Indonesian MSMEs can advance to class," said Gregorius as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, March 6.

During the Inacraft exhibition, dozens of types of handicraft products were brought by PLN fostered MSME activists and exhibited in the PLN booth. The best-selling types of handicraft products, namely crafts made of natural stone, papercraft and noken.

"The MSME products fostered by PLN are very diverse, unique and attractive, thus captivating the hearts of people who love Indonesian handicraft products," he said.

He said Inacraft, which is an international standard exhibition, was also able to encourage domestic handicraft products to penetrate the international market. This is because the exhibition has proven to be able to attract visitors from various regions to foreign countries.

For this reason, he hopes that this achievement can encourage other PLN assisted UMKs, which have recorded more than 3,000 partners throughout Indonesia.

"Inacraft 2024 is visited by foreign and national visitors. This is an opportunity to bring PLN's fostered UMK products to go global and continue to grow domestically," he said.

UMK activist assisted by PLN at the Nabire BUMN House, Elizabeth Ayer, revealed that PLN's support helps expand the marketing of handicraft products that were previously limited in Central Papua.

Present with four other UMKs from Papua, Elizabeth brought typical Papuan handicraft products such as wooden leather clothes, nokens, maltosa to tifa.

"I came from Papua to Jakarta not in vain because the work I brought from Papua was sold. From Inacraft, I can also get orders from abroad as well," said Elizabeth.