The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) fully supports fishery micro, small and medium enterprises (UMKM) to be able to market their products to penetrate export markets. Director General of Strengthening Competitiveness of Marine and Fishery Products (PDSPKP) KKP Budi Sulistiyo in a statement in Jakarta, Monday said that his party had sent 15 of the best UMKM to participate in the kick off of the UMKM Melangkah Menuju Pasar Global program held by Bank Mandiri and the Indonesian Export Financing Institution (LPEI).
"The UMKM sent are the result of strict selection through curation carried out to ensure that they have great potential to develop and compete in the global market," said Budi.
The participation is expected to provide opportunities for UMKM to expand their networks, increase capacity, and utilize export opportunities more optimally through support from Bank Mandiri and LPEI. "We send the best UMKM so that they can step into the global market. The UMKM that we include are the selected ones," he said. In the program, selected participants join MSMEs fostered by other ministries/institutions and BUMN. Furthermore, they attend three training sessions and are given intensive mentoring for a year. Not only that, participants will also be provided with E-Learning as a form of program training continuity, E-Counseling or private consultation (one on one) online at certain times with experts in the export sector. Including financial literacy and development of digital solutions for bank products. Budi emphasized that currently his staff is also curating MSMEs in the regions. Moreover, the program will take place in 12 Bank Mandiri regions, from Sumatra to Papua. Previously, Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono was optimistic that the implementation of the KKP priority program based on the blue economy would trigger an increase in the performance of cooperatives and MSMEs to be more evenly distributed in Indonesia.
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