Warning From Erick Thohir To The Board Of Directors Of The Red Plate: Don't Let SOEs Profit, MSMEs Go Bankrupt!

Minister of SOEs, Erick Thohir. (Photo: Doc. Ministry of SOEs)

JAKARTA - Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Erick Thohir said that all state-owned companies must be able to become the locomotive of national economic growth. This includes, he said, for the growth of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

Erick also reminded state-owned companies that MSMEs are not competitors. Instead, they are business partners, where the integration of the two has a significant impact on national economic growth.

"This is not the time for SOEs to become ivory towers, we must be able to compete in the open market and be the MSME locomotive behind it. That's why we are talking about not letting SOEs profit, but MSMEs going bankrupt," he said at the launch of the Quality Improvement of the SOE Procurement System, Thursday, September 9. .

Erick said, the goods and services procurement program or digital procurement that has been developed by SOEs is PaDi UMKM. Through this program, MSMEs can access tenders for the procurement of goods and services by SOEs online.

Not only can they access tenders, said Erick, MSMEs can also post their products to be purchased by SOEs in the program. Erick said that there were already more than 10,100 MSMEs participating in PaDi MSMEs with a total of 130 thousand transactions for the procurement of goods and services.

"Alhamdulillah, last August the report was only in August for me, the transaction value was Rp. 10.4 trillion," he said.

According to Erick, this achievement is proof that SOEs have opened themselves to collaborate with domestic MSMEs.

"This clearly proves that SOEs are now open, which previously had closed tenders, but now we are opening them to our friends, SMEs," he said.