JAKARTA – Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are the sectors most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. To that end, the government has also launched many assistance programs for MSME players, both in the form of credit restructuring and direct cash assistance.
“Our MSMEs do support the economy, but our MSMEs are not competitive. They have no link to the global supply chain,” said Senior Economist and Founder of CORE Indonesia Hendri Saparini in a webinar in Jakarta, Friday (21/8/2020).
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He said, MSMEs in Indonesia seemed to be in a world of their own, as were big businesses.
“When talking about the linkage of large and small businesses, in other countries the linkage is very high, but in Indonesia it is only 18-19%, this indicates that there is almost no relationship between large and small businesses,” explained Hendri.
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