Target 30,000 MSMEs Go Online, Minister Of SOEs Gandeng E-commerce Shopee To Tokopedia

The Minister of SOEs, Erick Thohir. (Photo: Doc. Ministry of SOEs)

JAKARTA - SOE Minister Erick Thohir emphasized the importance of MSMEs in the constellation of the national economy. Erick said, MSMEs are the majority of the Indonesian economy, and job creators. Therefore, Erick also targets 30,000 MSMEs to go digital in the near future by cooperating with e-commerce Shopee to Tokopedia. Furthermore, Erick also emphasized the importance of MSMEs to enter the digitalization ecosystem. Erick said, the world has now changed very much, if it does not adapt, does not understand digital, then it will not progress. "Because digital will change job opportunities and different types of businesses. We have to help each other, otherwise we will only be spectators, especially in the digital era like now," Erick said at the Kick-off of 30,000 SOEs Go Online, Monday, August 29. As a form of support for MSMEs, the Ministry of SOEs and SOEs distributes financing for MSMEs worth IDR 386 trillion. "92 (financing) from state-owned banks. The financing is there, we just want to move forward or not," he said. Now, to encourage MSMEs fostered by SOEs to market products online or online and optimize the performance of MSMEs by providing free online training and assistance to 30,000 MSME actors throughout Indonesia. This step, said Erick, was in accordance with the directives from President Jokowi some time ago to encourage MSME actors to sell their products by utilizing online platforms. "Coaches aimed at increasing the ability of MSME players to run business models from their businesses are given in stages for 3 months starting from August to October," he explained. Erick said that experts in the field of e-commerce were also involved in teaching 500 MSMEs in each class every day. In practice, SOEs cooperate with digital platforms that already have a digital MSME ecosystem, namely Shopee, Tokopedia and Gojek. "I ask all SOEs and 248 state-owned houses to have modern go training, so that their products are better MSMEs, designs and taste must also be trained so that they can go digital. I thank you, Gojek, Shopee, Tokopedia want to help our MSMEs," he said. "Our economy is the people's economy, we are not anti big, but the big ones must care about the small ones, we must collaborate, MSMEs are the majority of job creators, MSMEs encourage the Indonesian economy not to be abandoned," continued Erick. For information, previously it was recorded that as many as 20,000 MSMEs managed to go online, so that after this activity, the number of MSMEs assisted by SOEs that went Online would be 50,000 MSMEs.