BI Governor Invites Indonesians To Spend Money On MSMEs

Governor of Bank Indonesia (BI) Perry Warjiyo. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Bank Indonesia (BI) Governor Perry Warjiyo invited the Indonesian people to spend their money on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) as an effort to improve welfare and the national economy.

"If you buy MSMEs, don't offer them down, if you buy MSMEs, it will be offered up, to help them to be prosperous," Perry said at the Proudly Made in Indonesia National Movement (Gernas BBI) and the Proudly Traveling Movement in Indonesia (GBWI), quoted from Antara, Friday, July 14.

In addition, he also invited people to travel domestically compared to abroad, as an effort to improve the welfare and economy of people in various regions in Indonesia.

Thus, his party invites stakeholders to coordinate in an effort to increase spending on domestic products, increase domestic tourism, and control prices.

"Let's succeed in the proud movement made in Indonesia, travel in Indonesia, and price control," said Perry.

Perry explained that Gernas BBI is a government program since 2020 which aims to facilitate the development of a digital-based MSME ecosystem, which is expected to accelerate the achievement of 30 million Indonesian MSMEs going digital in 2024.

MSMEs advance women, advance the nation's children, millennials. That's the spirit of MSMEs, for job creation," Perry said.

Meanwhile, he hopes that the GBWI program can encourage tourist travel to within the country by 1.2 to 1.4 billion by 2023, or about twice as much compared to the achievement in 2022.

"Indonesian tourism is truly extraordinary, a source of foreign exchange, advancing the nation," said Perry.

For information, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in the ASEAN Investment Report 2022 report in October 2022 recorded that there were 65.46 million MSME actors, and contributed 60.3 percent to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and was able to absorb 97 percent of the workforce in Indonesia.