Governor of Bank Indonesia (BI), Perry Warjiyo opened Karya Kreatif Indonesia or KKI 2022 on Friday, May 27, 2022. On this occasion, the central bank wants to invite MSMEs fostered by Bank Indonesia to participate in the process of digitization and globalization. "Welcome to Karya Kreatif Indonesia 2022. After two years of doing it virtually, Alhamdulillah this year we can do it hybridly," said Perry in his remarks at the opening session of KKI 2022 at JCC Senayan, Jakarta, Friday (27/5). This year, KKI raised the theme of Indonesian MSMEs Rising through Digitalization and Globalization Towards Sustainable Economic Growth. Perry said, there are three keywords in the theme, namely synergy, digitalization, and globalization. For synergy, BI together with 13 ministries/agencies unite to present Indonesian MSMEs, 5 associations, 26 industry (actors) as well as banking circles. , payment systems, marketplaces, export aggregators, and even designers. "With this synergy we raise MSMEs from the region to the national, from national to global. With that synergy, let's continue to raise MSMEs towards Indonesia's economic recovery," he added. nationally, but also globally. For this reason, Perry continued, Bank Indonesia continues to digitize the payment system so that the MSME economic transaction process can be carried out quickly through the payment system.
"QR Indonesian Standard, 17.2 million merchants are already connected on this digital platform. I am sure our applause will be even louder, because 90 percent of the 17.2 million are MSMEs," he exclaimed. On the other hand, the digitization process is also being carried out in various ways. Through the 2022 KKI, BI wants to display superior products of export-quality MSMEs. "Let's continue to curate our MSMEs to meet the requirements nationally and globally. Including what we are doing here are 20 events, business matching, the financing process, and also connecting with buyers at the global level," said Perry. "This is our follow-up to always conducting MSME promotion events through 6 representative offices of Bank Indonesia around the world, Tokyo, Beijing, Singapore, London, New York. We collaborate with the Indonesian Embassy and ministries/agencies," he concluded.
