Young Entrepreneurs In Aceh Asked To Take Advantage Of Social Media To Market Products

Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno. (Photo: Doc. Kemenparekraf)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy (Kemenparekraf) encourages young entrepreneurs to use social media as marketing media for their products.

In training for Social Media Marketing at the Dayah Dawood Academic Activity Center, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, on Thursday, April 13, Menparekraf Sandiaga Uno said, in this digital era social media has become one of the fastest growing media that can be utilized for various things, one of which is as a medium for promoting creative economy products.

Thus, training related to social media is considered as something that young entrepreneurs need to develop their business and promote their products with unique and interesting content.

"So, we hope that this training will become a pillar of the creation of turnover and creating new jobs in 2024," Sandiaga said in a written statement, quoted Friday, April 14.

Through this training, Sandiaga said, it is hoped that young entrepreneurs, especially those from students, can promote their products through unique and competitive social media content.

"Hopefully, this training does not stop here, but can continue. This program is also expected not only to be ceremonial, but can be tiered and in the next five years we hope that they can become successful entrepreneurs," he said.