Tommy, the youngest son of former president Soeharto, will present a paper titled "Ideal UMKM-Large Business Synergy" at the seminar to be organized by state-owned Bank BNI in cooperation with TRUST magazine.
Chief organizer of the seminar Achmad Hafidz Yura said here on Tuesday that the Bali seminar was the last part of a series of similar seminars in eight cities in Indonesia.
Bank BNI and TURST have since the beginning of this year organized seminars of this kind in Bandung (West Java), Semarang (Central Java), Surabaya (East Java), Makassar (South Sulawesi), Pekanbaru (Riau), Medan (North Sumatra), and Balikpapan (East Kalimantan).
Besides Tommy Soeharto, other speakers who will appear at the Bali seminar are Achmad Baiquni (BNI director), Ikhwan Asrin (deputy marketing director and business network of the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium-Sized Businesses), Mega Ningsih (a deputy director of Bank Indonesia ) and Irwan Makdoerah (director of PT Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia).
The one-day seminar is also expected to be attended by Bali Governor I Made Mangku Pastika, who is also to open the seminar.
TRUST chief editor Bambang Aji Setiady said the seminar was considered important because UMKM constituted the backbone of the national economy.
A total of 99 percent of businesses in Indonesia are classified as UMKM businesses.
The seminar will be attended by 250 participants from UMKM circles. Some of the participants are entrepreneurs in the UMKM sector who are under the guidance of Bali's Cooperatives and UMKM Service office, Bank Indonesia Denpasar, and members of Bali province's National Self-Reliant Community Empowerment Program (PNPM).
Besides, participants also come from BNI customers, partners of Bali's Import-Export Association (GEIB), and other UMKM players in Bali. (*)
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