W20 Summit In Parapat Lake Toba Momentum To Promote North Sumatra SMEs

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MEDAN - Head of the North Sumatra Culture and Tourism Office, Zumri Sulthony, assessed that the W20 Summit event in Parapat, on the shores of Lake Toba, North Sumatra, was a momentum to promote the products of local micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

"Here is an opportunity for North Sumatra (North Sumatra) MSME players to market their products so that their products are widely known by tourists," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, July 21.

In the W20 Summit, which will be held from 18-21 July 2022, the Culture and Tourism Office collaborates with the Cooperatives and MSMEs Office to present various kinds of MSME creative industries made by North Sumatran women.

"The presence of W20 in Lake Toba certainly opens new opportunities for MSME business actors in North Sumatra. We also ask them to take advantage of the momentum of this W20 event as a promotional event," he said.

In addition to developing local MSME products, W20 is also a momentum to promote the tourism area to the world.

Because he said, the delegates directly saw the beauty of Lake Toba, so it was hoped that they would tell their relatives and relatives about the tourism area.

"So with the increase in tourist arrivals, of course the economy of this tourist area will continue to grow," he said.

Products of local micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) exhibited at the Woman 20 (W20) Summit in Parapat, Lake Toba, North Sumatra. (ANTARA/Nur Aprilliana Br Sitorus)

Chair of W20 Indonesia, Hadriani Uli Silalahi, said that W20 is an engagement group in the G20 forum that represents women's voices.

Issues raised include gender equality in the public sphere, health, women's economic empowerment, and defense against women with disabilities and rural women.

"Under the coordination of the W20, Indonesia in the G20 forum brings up important issues regarding the role of women, especially during the pandemic crisis, economy, and climate change," said Adriani Uli Silalahi.

The W20 Summit in Lake Toba brought together delegates from a number of worlds to decide what the W20 would put forward for a declaration at the G20 in December 2022.

"W20 priority issues include discrimination and gender equality, economic inclusion, marginalized women and health," he said.

The meeting participants were 56 from India, Australia, Indonesia, European Union, Russia, Italy, Singapore, Japan, France, South Korea, Turkey, South Africa, Argentina, Germany, USA, Sweden.