Telkom Supports Local Entrepreneurs Upgrading

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk through the Leap-Telkom Digital (Leap) brand supports local entrepreneurs to advance to class.

Director of Digital Business Telkom Muhamad Fajrin Rasyid expressed his gratitude for the good response from the West Kalimantan provincial government. Currently, there are approximately 335 MSMEs from West Kalimantan, Pontianak, which have been registered with Padi MSMEs, with total transactions reaching tens of billions of rupiah.

Hopefully this number can continue to grow, so that MSMEs in West Kalimantan Province can advance to class and increase the value and quality of their businesses," Fajrin said in a written statement, quoted from Antara, Wednesday 27 April.

Telkom through the Leap-Telkom Digital (Leap) brand consistently continues to help accelerate digitization in various ecosystems and in various regions in Indonesia. One of them is by collaborating and collaborating with various parties to ensure that the implementation of digitalization can be carried out by all sectors including agencies, corporations and governments in all regions in Indonesia and now, Leap is present in the city of Equator, Pontianak.

Telkom's Director of Digital Business, Muhamad Fajrin Rasyid, conducted a series of activities in Pontianak, West Kalimantan. One of them is by holding an audience with the West Kalimantan Provincial Government to introduce Leap's superior digital products and services to support government activities in providing the best service for the community.

The products introduced include BigBox, PaDi UMKM, SooltanPay, and Logee. The visit was received by the Governor of West Kalimantan H. Sutarmidji SH, M.Hum and his staff. His party welcomes Telkom's initiative to be able to develop digital products in West Kalimantan Province, including the implementation of One Data and the use of the PaDi MSME and SooltanPay platforms.

Furthermore, to foster the spirit of digital entrepreneurs in West Kalimantan, Fajrin also shared tips and digital entrepreneurship strategies to millennials with the theme 'Drinking with Millennials: Digital or Disadvantaged'. In this activity, the participants expressed their concern about the opportunity for local entrepreneurs to advance to the national level.

"To be exposed more broadly, friends must have a global mindset. How can the products built solve problems, not only in certain cities, but also throughout Indonesia, maybe even regionally like Southeast Asia," said Fajrin.

Not only that, Fajrin together with the Chancellor of the University of Tanjungpura Prof. Dr. H. Garuda Wiko SH, M.Si, signed an MoU with the synergy of resource utilization as a form of Telkom's commitment to support Tanjungpura University towards a cyber university.

On the same occasion, Telkom also provided co-working space assistance programs & the Tanjungpura Smart Village MBKM assistance program to Tanjungpura University represented by the Chancellor of Tanjungpura University. This is in line with the Leap program to accelerate the digitization of Indonesian society through universities as digital talent factories.

In this series, the signing of the One Data cooperation agreement was also carried out between GM Witel West Kalimantan, Tedi Rukmantara, and a number of local Communication and Information Offices. The signing of the One Data Implementation is the first step for the PoC (Proof of Concept) BigBox product, which is a Leap Telkom Digital product in the West Kalimantan Provincial Government, Kuburaya Regency Government, Sintang Regency Government, North Kayong Regency Government, and Melawi Regency Government, in accordance with Presidential Regulation No. 39 of 2019 concerning One Indonesian Data.