The online shop business trend is increasingly positive with the contribution of exports. One of them is the export of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) through e-commerce. It was recorded that more than 10,000 Solo MSMEs succeeded in exporting in just one year after participating in the Solo Export Shopee UMKM Campus training. Furthermore, 180,000 Indonesian MSMEs have succeeded in reaching international markets including Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Brazil and Mexico. In 2022, Shopee expanded its export destinations to Latin America, namely Brazil, Mexico and East Asia. This figure does not include data that was fully collected last year. Reporting from Shopee's press release titled Flashback 2022: How Shopee Creates Resilience for More Indonesian People, the marketplace company claims collaboration and contributions from various industries are important factors in building the national economy. The collaboration can be seen from the performance of the Indonesian economy in Q3 2022 which reached 5.72% (year on year). Shopee helps MSME business owners to be able to open markets overseas through Shopee Exports. At the end of 2022, Shopee has succeeded in exporting 20,400,000 Indonesian MSME products, while BPS data says that in 2021 0.88% of e-commerce businesses in Indonesia will export. One of the MSMEs using the Shopee Export service is the Klaten Health Mask business owned by Arsy Yulifa Hapsari. The business, which was founded in 2018, started using Shopee Exports in late 2020. The challenge of using Shopee Export for Arsy is a fierce competitor with competitive prices. The last export was carried out by Arsy almost a year ago.
Meanwhile, the official statistical news for the BPS Central Java Province noted that in the third quarter of 2022 Central Java's export value was USD 2,952.93 million, down from the previous quarter's exports of USD 2,998.73 million. Judging from 2020-2022, in the first quarter of 2022 the highest export value was USD 3,171.5 million. The lowest export value was in Central Java recorded in the second quarter of 2020 valued at USD 1,633.9 million. BPS noted that in 2020 Covid-19 had a direct impact on the economy including the value of Central Java's exports. Non-oil and gas exports contributed USD 962.91 million in July 2022, then decreased successively to USD 959.18 million in August 2022 and USD 865.32 in September 2022. The contribution of non-oil and gas exports to Central Java's total exports in the third quarter of 2022 2022 of 94.4%, an increase compared to the composition of the second quarter of 2022 of 92.55%. BPS data shows that the United States is the main destination for non-oil and gas exports in Central Java. 38.86% of Central Java's Q3 2022 non-oil and gas exports go to that country, followed by Japan with a 9.76% share, then China 5.91% then Germany and South Korea respectively 4.20% and 2.97%. The remaining 38.31% is non-oil and gas exports from Central Java to other countries.
