Deputy Minister Of MSMEs Releases Exports Of 22 MSME Products Worth IDR 961 Million To The Philippines

Deputy Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Helvi Moraza. (Photo: Doc. Ministry of MSMEs)

JAKARTA - Deputy Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Helvi Moraza symbolically released the export of 22 MSME products to the Philippines.

This activity is the result of the actualization of the Capacity Building program in 2024 through the UKM Campus platform with an ecosystem approach and a global supply chain.

"Today, we are witnessing the release of the first export of products from 22 MSMEs to the Philippines covering food, fashion, and handicraft products with a total transaction value of Rp961 million," said Helvi, quoted on Friday, February 21.

Meanwhile, Deputy for Small Business at the Ministry of MSMEs, Temmy Satya Permana, said that this initial export shipment could not be separated from the collaborative support of the Indonesian Export Financing Agency (LPEI) in financing.

"The container plan will be dispatched on February 22, 2025, by traveling for 12 days to the Philippines. The shipping financing support is facilitated by the Indonesian Export Financing Agency," said Temmy.

He explained that the series of activities on the SME Campus platform focuses on increasing the competence and capacity of MSME entrepreneurs, in terms of standardization and certification for MSME products with the tagline Go Standard, Go Digital, Go Export.

As for activities at the SME Campus at each level of the program, said Helvi, it includes webinars, technical guidance, assistance and certification, work papers, and case studies.

Everything is always curated at the beginning of the activity to encourage the commitment and seriousness of SME entrepreneurs in participating in the program.

Standardization of the product production and digitization process is carried out to penetrate the market and prepare products to enter the global market (export).

This is also supported by efforts to bring together selected SME entrepreneurs with potential buyers (buyers) through the Onsite Business Matching (OBM) program.

Onsite Business Matching in 2024 will be held twice, the first phase will be held in September 2024 and the second stage will be held in December 2024.

The first phase of OBM was attended by 34 MSME participants with 9 buyers from Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, South Africa, Germany, and Saudi Arabia. While the second stage of OBM was attended by 30 MSME participants with 12 buyers from Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates.

The results of these OBM activities that have been recorded in the form of Sales Contract (SC) in the first phase of OBM are worth 41,800 US dollars with 29 Sales Contract, and the second stage OBM worth 570,360 US dollars with 24 Sales Contract.

So that the total transactions on OBM in 2024 are worth US$612,160 or more than Rp9.79 billion.