Banjarmasin – Evi Yuliana, a Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSMEs) actor in Banjarmasin City, is enthusiastic about selling her business at the Ministry of Finance One South Kalimantan MSME Expo which was held at the Regional Office of DJBC Southern Kalimantan, Jalan Akhmad Yani Kilometer 2.5 Banjarmasin which was held, Tuesday ( 20/6) to Thursday (22/6).
“We are very excited and happy to be able to take part in this expo. We hope that events like this will be held more often,” he said.
The same thing was said, Yes, this UMKM variety of Banjar food. MSME players are getting excited because the government provides space to introduce their products. “At least once every six months, small businesses are given space to take part in the bazaar,” he hoped.
The South Kalimantan Ministry of Finance’s UMKM Expo event was opened by the Governor of South Kalimantan, Sahbirin Noor marked by the beating of a tambourine drum accompanied by the Chairperson of the South Kalimantan DPRD, Expert Staff to the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia for State Revenue Policy Oza Olavia, Director
Fund Planning and Management – Plt. BPDP Partnership Director KS Kabul Wijayanto, Tanah Laut Regent HM Sukamta, and Head of Representative of the South Kalimantan Ministry of Finance Ferdinan Lengkong.
After opening the event, Governor Uncle Birin, close nickname immediately went to several booths and bought some Sasirangan cloth.
According to the Governor, the existence of this MSME Expo is to inflame the MSME movement on the policy of RI President Jokowi through the Ministry of Finance to anticipate a global crisis.
“Hopefully there won’t be a global crisis and our country will become more victorious and strong. With tough MSMEs, this country will be tough,” he said.
Uncle Birin added, the South Kalimantan Provincial Government continues to encourage the growth of the agricultural production sector and industry, so that it can absorb more workers in the formal sector and improve MSME access to business credit provided by banks.
“Transforming the economic structure through downstreaming the industry from raw or semi-finished materials to finished materials and development the agriculture, tourism and MSME sectors have been integrated into every program and activity development of South Kalimantan,” he said.
The development of MSMEs, he continued, upgrading and modernizing cooperatives is currently a priority for South Kalimantan’s development.
“In order for South Kalimantan’s MSMEs to have the opportunity to continue to progress and develop, of course, they need support from the Central Government so that they provide broad opportunities to create jobs, reduce unemployment and poverty, and can go even further as a sector that increases the nation’s competitiveness at the world economic level. ,” he said.
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