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Business Network International (BNI) Indonesia, the world's leading business referral organization, held the BNI Indonesia National Conference 2024 (Photo : BNI) - 

VOInews, Jakarta : Business Network International (BNI) Indonesia, the world's leading business referral organization, held the BNI Indonesia National Conference 2024, Thursday (15/8/2024) at Sutera Hall, Alam Sutera Mall Jalan Jalan Sutera Bar No. 16, Tangerang City, Banten.

Attended by more than 1,000 business people including around 100 delegates from business owners, CEOs and company directors from abroad, this conference is the most prestigious business conference this year.

Overseas delegations include Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, Dubai, Germany, Hong Kong, China, Japan, the United States (US), India.

According to a release received by Voice of Indonesia on Thursday (15/08/24), The members were enthusiastic about attending in order to build networking with Indonesian business people who were fellow BNI members. Indonesia has become BNI's global concern since 2022, experiencing growth of more than 300 percent, the highest among 80 countries.

Present to give a keynote speech were Global Growth Mentor Mac Srinivasan, BNI Malaysia National Director Marcus Hwang, together with the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno.

Meanwhile, in the Panel Talk session "Fostering Success through Collaborations & Co-creations" were present Sophine Kirana (Puteri Indonesia Environment 2024), Eddy Sugiri (National Director of BNI Indonesia), Mac Srinivasan (Global Growth Mentor) and Tommy Wattimena (President Director of Great Giant Foods).

During the conference there was a networking session that brought together entrepreneurs, as well as an MOU Signing Ceremony for BNI Indonesia, Blu by BCA Digital, and OCBC Indonesia.

Also present were Torch.id, Sribu, Coach Yusman, Mustika Ratu, Clove Research, Halosis. Apart from Eddy Sugiri, other BNI Indonesia National Directors were also present, namely Setio Priyono and Grace Hakim.

They build global collaboration, increase business scale, build business networking, and increase the visibility and credibility of BNI Indonesia, in order to produce globally competitive entrepreneurs, as well as increase contributions to improving the national economy.

According to BNI Indonesia National Director Eddy Sugiri, BNI is a business organization that is woven into a system that is connected to a global business network in 80 countries.

Especially when talking about export products. "So far, it has not been easy for countries to build businesses with other countries, but at BNI we are instantly connected directly to our network in 80 countries because we are in one system. This is something no other organization has.”

Currently, BNI Indonesia has more than 800 members who are business owners from medium to large scale businesses in the cities of Jakarta, Tangerang, Bandung, Surabaya, Bali and Cirebon, and BNI Indonesia is ready to contribute to building the Indonesian economy towards a Golden Indonesia 2045, when It is projected that BNI Indonesia members will be more than 30-40 thousand members.

"Next year we will have 1,300-1,400 members, with member growth last year of more than 400 percent. This is not an ordinary business organization, but has made a huge contribution to the development of national business and encouraged national economic growth.

"This includes when we talk about Golden Indonesia 2045, at which time BNI Indonesia will potentially contribute US$ 150 billion per year from the estimated business turnover of our members of 30 thousand people with a turnover of US$ 5 million for each member," continued Eddy Sugiri.

Regarding the new government under elected President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, Eddy believes that the economy will continue to grow, and it is hoped that there will be political stability, security, global economic improvement with tensions in developed countries easing.

"Hopefully challenges such as inefficiency, licensing, facilitating foreign investment can be handled well," he said.

Eddy said, BNI also has a very good global connection effect in terms of encouraging an increase in foreign investment (PMA) in Indonesia, because the weaknesses of PMA include the level of trust which is still weak, as is the case everywhere.

"Through the existence of BNI Indonesia, BNI's friends from outside will be braver to invest capital in Indonesia because there are friends here who will help with permits and increase trust because there are local partners. So BNI is very effective."//VOI