Teten, Sandi, Erick, Tito Agrees To Target 1 Million New Entrepreneurs Until 2024

Photo: Doc. Antara

JAKARTA - The government has agreed to boost the target of the new entrepreneurship ratio until 2024 as many as one million people to pursue prerequisites as developed countries by 4 percent. This was agreed by the Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs Teten Masduki, Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno, Minister of SOEs Erick Thohir, and Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian represented by the Directorate General of Regional Development Teguh Setyabudi when holding a coordination meeting at the Sarinah Building, Jakarta. "Perpres (Presidential Regulation) Number 2 of the Year concerning National Entrepreneurship Development (PKN) aims to accelerate the achievement of the RPJMN (National Medium-Term Development Plan) 2020-2024 target in the form of realizing one million entrepreneurs, of which 400,000 entrepreneurs are contributions to ministries/agencies (k/l) and 600 thousand entrepreneurs as regional contributions from 2022-2024," said Teten as the Chief Executive of the National Entrepreneurship Development Committee as stated in an official statement, quoted from Antara, Thursday, September 8. In particular, the Presidential Regulation of PKN mandates 27 families/L to actively participate in overseeing the achievement of one million new entrepreneurs with the contribution of the Ministry of SOEs as many as 120 thousand, 630 thousand Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, and the rest are sourced from areas coordinated by the Ministry of Home Affairs. The government is said to have divided the target to create new entrepreneurs into three groups. One from informal to formal, then from micro-enterprises to small business actors, and from small business actors to medium-sized business actors. "From informal to formal it comes from the Ministry of Home Affairs, micro to small at Pak Sandiaga, and small to medium at Mr. Erick's place," said Teten. SOE Minister Erick Thohir hopes that stakeholders can work together to pursue the target of one entrepreneur as well. To pursue this target, the Ministry of SOEs is said to be focusing on financing and assisting entrepreneurs. He believes that what is targeted is achieved even though there is still a COVID-19 pandemic and a political year ahead of the 2024 General Election. "I don't think we should be trapped in a political year because what is called job creation and the creation of entrepreneurs is not because of the political year. We must continue to create it," he said. Menparekraf Sandiaga likens the joint work of 27 ministries/agencies to a very colossal orchestration. "I believe the President's target to enter the ranks of developed countries is at least 4 percent entrepreneurial ratio can be achieved," said Sandiaga.