UMKM Contribution To New Non-Oil And Gas Export Capai 15.7 Percent

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs noted that the contribution of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to non-oil and gas exports was only around 15.7 percent, below the contribution of Chinese, Indian and Vietnamese MSMEs.

Therefore, the Ministry of Cooperatives held the Human Resources Development (HR) of Partner-Based SMEs with export aggregators and SMEs in Tangerang, Banten, to create the Go Export UKM ecosystem.

"This effort is carried out in order to support the achievement of the MSME target of contributing to non-oil and gas exports by 17 percent in 2024," said Assistant Deputy for Human Development of Small and Medium Enterprises Deputy for SMEs at the Ministry of Cooperatives Dwi Andriani Sulistyowati as quoted by ANTARA, Sunday, September 18.

According to him, SMEs Go Exports need knowledge about the trends of export products, marketing, and developing export products.

SMEs are considered to still have weaknesses, one of which does not see a trend when producing a item.

On this basis, it is necessary to bring in experts in the fields of product design, aggregator, and buying representative.

In this activity, experts make knowledge transfers by providing reviews and input directly on every product produced and presented by each SME.

In this way, the development of partnership-based SMEs between aggregators and export SMEs will not only provide supporting theories, but will also be given direct practice.

"Indeed, there are stages, the theory is around 30-40 percent. Then we take them to the workshop in the direct practice, SMEs observe, imitate, and modify what is called ATMs (Amat, Membidak, Modification), plus a successstory from aggregators who are also SME actors, to encourage them," he said.

Later, he hopes that SMEs can become part of the aggregator supply chain and large export-scale businesses.

This activity is a place for SMEs to interact and introduce each other's businesses (companyprofile). By building a network (networking), it will collaborate and synergize between fellow SME players to create and produce new creative products with export quality," he said.

The owner of PT Homeware Internasional Indonesia Edmond Setiadarma admitted that he was very concerned about the SME problem. Through his company, he is committed to assisting MSME actors in exporting.

Not all MSMEs have access to export markets and a large production capacity, so we help collect their products so they can meet buyers' demands. Generally, orders from abroad have high demand specifications, we do product standardization," said Edmond.