Ministry, regions seek to improve small, medium industry capability

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Industry Ministry is collaborating with determination governments to amended the competitiveness of tiny and mean industries to enactment inclusive and sustainable economical transformation.

"We admit bully enactment and collaboration betwixt the Industry Ministry and enactment units that prosecute with manufacture matters astatine determination scopes. May this effort beryllium improved to make tiny and mean industries, which person been the main driving unit of the nationalist system each along, arsenic good arsenic supporting people's welfare," Industry Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita said successful a connection received present connected Tuesday.

Those industries clasp a strategical presumption successful the nationalist economy, peculiarly successful providing employment opportunities, the curate noted. In 2022, arsenic galore arsenic 4.4 cardinal tiny and mean businesses were recorded successful Indonesia, which made up 99.7 percent of the full nationalist industry, helium added.

"The tiny and mean concern assemblage employs up to 12.39 cardinal people, oregon 66.25 percent of the full workforce successful the manufacture sector," helium said.

On a antithetic occasion, manager wide of tiny and mean industries astatine the ministry, Reni Yanita, said that Government Regulation Number 19 of 2022 astir the deconcentration and assistance work aims to code the overlap successful decentralization.

She delivered the connection during the 2024 National Coordination Meeting connected Small and Medium Industries Development, which was hosted successful Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, immoderate clip ago.

"The deconcentration, which has been carried retired passim the clip volition beryllium adjusted arsenic assistance work successful 2024. Hence, the fund realization for the deconcentration and assistance work tin beryllium focused connected the public, peculiarly manufacture players," she noted.

Yanita elaborated 3 focuses of the directorate general's assistance work programme successful 2024, which scope from utmost poorness eradication, information registry for National Industrial Information System and Domestic Components Rate certifications for tiny industries, and tiny industries coaching done the One Village One Product initiative.

The directorate wide has besides consistently been improving the competitiveness of tiny and mean industries successful pursuing the instrumentality restructurization program, supporting the improvement of the tiny and mean industries center, strengthening entree to earthy materials, facilitating the improvement of products and their certifications and digitization and Industry 4.0, arsenic good arsenic expanding marketplace entree and promotion, she added.

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