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The Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs received a special mandate from President Joko Widodo to encourage the acceleration of the digital transformation of Indonesian MSMEs. In this case, the government is targeting 30 million MSMEs throughout Indonesia onboarding into the digital ecosystem by 2024.

The Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs, Teten Masduki, said that presenting SMEs in the digital ecosystem alone is certainly not enough. According to him, it is necessary to create new economic value.

"Therefore, President Jokowi has conveyed directions for the acceleration of 1 million MSMEs onboarding the government goods and services procurement platform (LKPP) per year," Teten said in a press statement, Tuesday (9/8/2022).

The Coordinating Minister for SMEs added that this will be encouraged starting in 2022. "Ministries, non-ministerial government agencies and SOEs are asked to prioritize the use of domestic products," he continued.

In addition, President Jokowi also conveyed directions to Minister Teten to ensure the protection of domestic online marketplace platforms, Indonesian MSMEs using online marketplace platforms and the domestic market.

The three directives, said Menkop-UKM, will be a guide for his ministry in preparing complete digital transformation programs from upstream to downstream. In addition, it will also involve all relevant stakeholders.

"This is an effort so that the potential of Indonesia's digital economy can bring the broadest benefits to the community," he said.

Teten believes that the increase in the number of MSMEs that are digitally transformed will become the foundation for Indonesia to be able to optimize its digital economic potential. Where in 2030 it is expected to reach Rp4,531 trillion.

However, Menkop-UKM said that all of these efforts need to be accompanied by expanding market access, improving the quality of human resources and management, as well as product quality and quantity.

For this reason, Kemenkop-UKM has prepared initiatives, programs, and upstream-downstream interventions to accelerate the digital transformation of Indonesian MSMEs. Among them are through complete data collection of KUMKM, ease of managing MSME legality, and acceleration of making NIB.

In addition, there are also training and mentoring programs to increase the competitiveness of MSMEs, the National Movement for Proud Made in Indonesia (Gernas BBI) campaign and the provision of business incubators on campuses to produce more competitive young entrepreneurs. Not to forget the joint production house as a consolidation effort in improving the quality and quantity of production.

Meanwhile, from the downstream side, Kemenkop-UKM presents initiatives in the form of curating MSME products for official G20 Indonesia merchandise, business matching activities for purchasing and utilizing domestic products (PDN), utilizing digital platforms such as ASEAN access to open global market access, as well as investor activities. matchmaking like Entrepreneur Financial Fiesta.

"The upstream-downstream approach and the synergy of the digital ecosystem are the main raw materials for the digital transformation of MSMEs in order to fully optimize the potential of the digital economy to ensure mutual prosperity in the digital era," said Teten ending his statement. (RRI)

The government is trying to make Yahukimo Regency, Papua Mountains Province a center for food security. Both in the province and eastern Indonesia.

"Not only as a strategic gateway to the Central Highlands of Papua from the southern region of Papua, Yahukimo also has the potential to support Papuan regional and even national food security, due to the availability of extensive agricultural land," said Presidential Chief of Staff, Moeldoko, Tuesday (9/8/2022).

Because geographically, he said, Yahukimo Regency is still isolated and access to connecting roads is still very limited. So that food security must be strengthened first, while waiting for the road access construction process to be completed.

The government of Yahukimo Regency has prepared 200 hectares of agricultural land with water sources for irrigation. This agricultural land is not only prepared for rice production, but also for other commodities that have high economic value.

Nevertheless, Moeldoko admits that in order to achieve food security in Yahukimo, synergy efforts are needed from all parties.

"Moving the food security program in Yahukimo is not easy, considering that in 2009, Yahukimo was hit by a famine. In fact, Yahukimo has tremendous potential to become a food center. So, there needs to be encouragement from all parties," he said.

Meanwhile, the Yahukimo Government also hopes that the central government will help local governments to build infrastructure connecting roads between Yahukimo to Wamena and Yahukimo to Jayawijaya.

Yahukimo Regent Didimus Yahuli hopes that the government will immediately open an access road from Yahukimo to the Pepera port center to facilitate distribution and transportation routes to and from Yahukimo.

"Yahukimo is very strategic, has an area of ​​17,152 square kilometers with a population of 350,880 people. Now the mountainous Papua area has been brought closer, the opening of roads and access to and from Yahukimo can support the progress of mountainous Papua," said Didimus. (RRI)

The Ministry of Agriculture invites the public to love domestic agricultural production in the midst of the threat of a food crisis in the world.

So that if all this time, people depend on wheat, which is now rising in price, they can replace it with local food.

"If we depend on wheat for high prices, what should we do? Love local food consumption, love domestic production," said Director General of Food Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan) Suwandi, in a discussion entitled Assistance for Sorghum Cultivation from Upstream to Downstream in Jakarta, Tuesday (9/8/2022).

Suwandi said that since 1976 wheat entered Indonesia, the existence of local commodities has dwindled. In fact, according to him, local food has many opportunities.

He gave an example, if soybeans are attacked by imports, the enthusiasm of farmers will decrease. This has an impact on the narrowing of the area of ​​​​soybean agricultural land.

As a result, the price becomes uncompetitive until it becomes cheaper to import.

As for a number of food substitutes for wheat include, sorghum, cassava, sago, and others.

"The substitution of wheat, one cassava, the two sorghums that we are discussing, the three sago and other local foods, hotong, hanjeli in some areas are sweet potato, then taro, breadfruit are also available," he said.

It is known, that world wheat prices soared due to the Russia-Ukraine war. To anticipate this, the government encourages the increase in the cultivation of sorghum as a substitute for wheat. (RRI)

PT Pertamina is the only state-owned company in Indonesia to be included in the list of Fortune Global 500 in 2022. Pertamina's ranking is at 223, or an increase of 64 ranks compared to 2021, which is in position 287.

Minister of State-Owned Enterprises Erick Thohir assessed that the increase in Pertamina's rating provides evidence that SOEs can compete with global companies.

"I highly appreciate the directors, commissioners, and all Pertamina personnel who work hard in increasing the company's competitiveness. So that they can compete in the international arena," Erick said in a statement, Tuesday (9/8/2022).

According to Erick, Pertamina's slick achievements cannot be separated from the transformation and restructuring steps through the formation of holdings and sub-holdings.

"Transformation through holding and sub-holding makes Pertamina's operations more effective and efficient because it focuses on core business. This is in line with our target that Pertamina must become a Global Energy Champion company and have a valuation of 100 billion USD," said Erick.

Erick hopes that Pertamina's achievements can be an inspiration for other SOEs to be able to speak more on the world stage. Erick believes that other SOEs can imitate Pertamina's footsteps as long as they are able to optimally implement the transformation and core values, Morals.

"The better the performance of SOEs, let alone until they are recognized by the world, will certainly have a significant impact on the community. The positive performance will certainly provide a large space for SOEs to contribute more in increasing economic growth, maintaining market balance, as well as populist economic programs," said Erick.

President Director of PT Pertamina, Nicke Widyawati said Pertamina's efforts to increase competitiveness were not hindered by the pandemic. Even in the midst of the company's tough challenges, the company's financial performance jumped sharply in 2021.

This is what has led Pertamina to increase its ranking in the Fortune Global 500 in 2022.

“Pertamina has succeeded in increasing the company's revenue and net profit twice compared to the previous year. An extraordinary achievement in the midst of global challenges and a pandemic that is not over yet," said Nicke.

Pertamina recorded revenues in 2021 of USD 57.51 billion, an increase compared to last year's USD 41.47 billion. Pertamina's net profit amounted to USD 2.045 billion, an increase of almost double compared to 2020 of USD 1.05 billion. (RRI)