Kemenkop UKM Mau Wira Entrepreneur Perempuan Inovatif Based On Technology Created Through This Program

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs (Kemenkop UKM) encourages the empowerment of innovative and technology-based entrepreneurs.

Expert Staff to the Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs Rully Nuryanto appreciated the collaboration between Standard Chartered and BenihBaik.com which had initiated the Women in Entrepreneurship program for MSMEs.

"I hope that this program will be able to create technological-based innovative female entrepreneurs," said Rully at the launch of the Women in Entrepreneurship Standard Chartered for MSME program in Jakarta as quoted from her official statement, Thursday, March 7.

Rully assessed that the initiative proves a joint commitment to support the progress and independence of women in the business world in various sectors.

Moreover, empowering female entrepreneurs is one of the important pillars in national economic development which is also in line with the government's vision to make Indonesia a world economic force in 2045.

Even so, Rully admitted that female entrepreneurs still face quite complex challenges for the sustainability and sustainability of their business.

Therefore, collaboration is needed to encourage the empowerment of female entrepreneurs and one of the real efforts is made through mentoring programs, such as Women in Entrepreneurship for MSMEs.

He said that currently the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs is encouraging potential sectors, such as agriculture, health and fitness as well as clean energy and technology.

Currently, said Rully, the government continues to support programs or activities that are not only in the form of training (one shot knowledge sharing), but technical/practice programs for improving company governance and business development.

Thus, he hopes, the program can create an impact on the development and sustainability of the participants' businesses as well as open market access, aggregator, or even access to financing to meet the national economic and market scale.

Meanwhile, the Director of Standard Chartered Compliance, Dewi Muhfiyanti, revealed that her party together with the Baik Seed Foundation have fostered around 3,000 female MSMEs throughout Indonesia.

According to him, coaching is important because women's MSMEs still have many challenges, such as access to financing and technology.

"This Women in Entrepreneurship program is a bridge for gender inequality in the business world, to building an entrepreneurial spirit among women," he added.