"As of today, 22.81 million MSMEs are onboarded to online platforms," Masduki said during a working meeting with Commission VI of the House of Representatives (DPR RI) in Jakarta on Monday.
Thanks to these achievements, the government is getting closer to the target of digitizing 30 million MSMEs in Indonesia by 2024, he said.
He said that his ministry was stressing the importance of ensuring the presence of digital platforms on a local scale that target markets per region or area.
Digital platforms on a local scale are more relevant for MSMEs, especially for micro-scale businesses, he added.
Masduki said that if micro-scale community businesses are connected to national-scale digital platforms, then these businesses will face difficulty surviving because their production is small.
"We want local platforms with a local scale," Masduki said.
He said that digitalizing MSMEs is one of priority programs at the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs in 2023.
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