How To Defeat China's SME?

Jakarta - young entrepreneurs who are members of the Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association (HIMPI) believes, small and medium enterprise sector (SME) can be large and Indonesia beat Chinese SMEs.

Chairman of the SME sector HIMPI compartment Lesmana Romi says, central government support to boost the SMEs. Moreover, SMEs are very powerful stimulate the economy. "No way we could help. Especially if assisted, we can beat countries like India and China," Romi said when met at Palma One Building, Kuningan, Jakarta, Wednesday (13/02/2013).

Romi added, the form of government support could be in the form of infrastructure setup, ease of finance or bank credit sector also became major driving force in the development of SMEs. "In China, low-interest loans, low India, both around 5%. But in Indonesia 13%, but earlier he said there were at least 12% of it is good," he explained. Currently, government support was already perceived by the SMEs. Just how consistent that this support continues.

"We have started to open. Especially now for delivery costs are very much. Bureaucracy was also very good. Agency funding, the KUR (small loans) has gone the way. Such BSM (Bank Syariah Mandiri), which last year provided Rp 750 billion loan this year to Rp 1.5 trillion, "he concluded.