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VOINews, Jakarta - Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry's (Kadin's) Logistics and Supply Chain Agency will participate in Transport Logistic Southeast Asia Exhibition, the world's largest transportation and logistics exhibition, at the Singapore Sands Expo in November 2023.

Participation in the exhibition is part of the efforts to support improvement in the development of the national logistics ecosystem, Head of the Logistics and Supply Chain Agency of Kadin Akbar Djohan said.

"With the event in Singapore, we also want to show that Indonesia is not like the general perspective, our competitiveness of national logistics can add value to provide service certainty to users and the logistics market in the country," Djohan stated during the press conference of the Launch of the Transport Logistic Southeast Asia Exhibition 2023 at Kadin's office here, Thursday.

Djohan highlighted that in the last two years, Indonesia's transportation and logistics sector had clocked rapid progress and grown significantly in line with the development of the digital economy, including e-commerce.

"This event is also the right momentum to bring together actors in the Indonesian logistics sector with international business actors, not only to share experiences and network but also opportunities to synergize and compete in the global market," he remarked.

Citing the Statistics Indonesia (BPS) data, Djohan further noted that the transportation and warehousing sector had grown 15.93 percent (yoy) in the first quarter of 2023 and become the sector with the highest growth.

Meanwhile, Kadin Indonesia also projects that Indonesia's logistics industry this year has the potential to continue to grow above six percent, supported by the e-commerce market that is still growing and people's activities are starting to normalize after the COVID-19 pandemic status was lifted.

However, Djohan stated that the uneven distribution of connectivity infrastructure that causes the high logistics costs is still one of the major challenges faced by Indonesia.

Hence, he believes that the development of infrastructure connectivity that prioritizes logistics cost efficiency is of utmost importance.

“Our country consists of 17,500 islands. Port standardization needs to be improved, a dashboard that can show the data transparently, in real-time, so that local stakeholders can carry out their policies quickly and precisely," he stated.

Moreover, he explained that improving logistics management requires synergy between industry players and stakeholders to encourage simplification of the work of the national supply chain system by implementing digitalization of services.

"Kadin Indonesia appreciates the government's efforts to start developing digitization of services in the logistics sector within the National Logistics Ecosystem (NLE)," he stated.

"Kadin Indonesia, through the Logistics and Supply Chain Agency, continues to strive to be able to contribute to the integration of a structured and well-recorded national logistics system through an appropriately developed digitalization system," he remarked. (Antaranews)