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Papua Provincial Government Trains MSMEs on Exports
WINDONESIA October 28, 2024
(Papua Provincial Government)
The Papua Provincial Government trained dozens of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) about how to enter the export market on Oct. 22, 2024. The training provided includes improving the quality of export products to export procedures and mechanisms.
Acting Papua Province Trade and Industry Office Head Hartati Iwanggin assessed that MSMES have very large potential of MSMEs to penetrate the export market, as several of them that have actually succeeded in selling their products abroad thanks to their relationships.
"That's why we embrace all of them, we train them again so that their production results can be exported. A total of 40 MSMEs participated in this training," he said after opening the Export and Import Training at a hotel in Jayapura City, Papua Province.
Papua Trade and Industry Office Trade Section Head Herman Bleskadit hopes that there will be a associations for specific commodities formed by MSMEs in Papua, so they could achieve sustained export at an amount that approaches the demand.
"For example, MSMEs that process sago commodities [could] form associations so that stock availability is sufficient for export. If only one person exports, the costs are high, the stock is limited, and even if exports are made it may only be done once and not continued," he explained.
Herman added that 20 training participants were MSMEs on the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border, while the rest were MSMEs in Jayapura City and traders who usually sell goods from PNG.
"We involve them in training so that they can understand the rules on exports and imports because there are provisions, [such as on] which goods are allowed or not and so on," he elaborated.
Source: www.rri.co.id