During The Week, Jokowi Has Distributed IDR 2.4 Trillion For Micro Business Actors

The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, handed over the Banpres on Productive Micro Businesses to micro and small entrepreneurs in Aceh Province. (Photo: Twitter @jokowi)

JAKARTA - The National Economic Recovery Task Force (PEN) stated that the progress of the implementation of the economic recovery program (PEN) specifically for the distribution of Productive Presidential Assistance (Banpres) to micro and small enterprises (UMK) has reached IDR 2.4 trillion in the last week.

Head of the PEN Task Force Budi Gunadi Sadikin said that the distribution of Productive Banpres to MSEs would run fast, because the assistance was given directly in cash. It is targeted to be completed in the next one to two months.

"On Monday, Mr. President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) just launched the Productive Banpres for micro businesses. Within one week, around Rp. 2.4 trillion has been channeled specifically for this micro productive assistance," he said in a press conference at the Presidential Office, Jakarta. , Friday, August 28.

Budi said that this assistance would be distributed to micro businesses throughout Indonesia. According to him, aid has been distributed to 1 million MSEs in Jakarta, which was then continued in Aceh and Yogyakarta.

Furthermore, Budi said, the government has prepared a budget of IDR 22 trillion to help 9.1 million MSEs affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We hope that this Rp22 trillion can be distributed quickly. So that it can help drive the country's economy in the third quarter," he said.

For your information, Banpres for Micro Enterprises is in the form of money worth IDR 2.4 million which will be given per micro and small business actor. The government is targeting 12 million micro and small businesses to be beneficiaries of this assistance which will be transferred directly to the accounts of the recipients.

Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs, Teten Masduki, said that this program had been distributed since 17 August. The first phase distribution target is for 9.1 million beneficiaries, with a total budget of IDR 22 trillion.

In the early stages, the Productive Banpres was distributed to 1 million beneficiaries in collaboration with BRI and BNI. BRI has distributed Productive Banpres to 683,528 beneficiaries with a total distribution of Rp1.64 trillion, while BNI has distributed to 316,472 beneficiaries with a total distribution of Rp760 billion.

As written in the Regulation of the Minister of Cooperatives, Small and Medium Enterprises of the Republic of Indonesia Number 6 of 2020 concerning General Guidelines for the Distribution of Government Assistance for Micro Business Actors to Support National Economic Recovery in the Context of Facing Threats that Endanger the National Economy and Rescue the National Economy during the Corona Virus Disease Pandemic 2019 (COVID-19), the requirements that must be met to get the BPUM are as follows:

1. Indonesian citizen

2. Have a National Identity Number

3. Owning a Micro Business as evidenced by a letter of proposal from the BPUM applicant candidate and its attachments which constitute an integral part, and

4. Non-State Civil Servants, members of the Indonesian National Army, members of the Indonesian National Police, employees of BUMN, or employees of BUMD.

The prospective BPUM recipients must be proposed by the BPUM proposer. BPUM proposers include agencies in charge of Provincial and District / City Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Cooperatives, cooperatives that have been legalized as legal entities, ministries / institutions, banking and finance companies registered with the OJK, and government credit channeling institutions.