Government to set up SME promotion center in each province

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian government will soon set up a small and medium enterprises promotion center in each region across the country, an official said.

"Hopefully, each region will have a SME promotion center so that the marketing network of their products will be getting wider," assistant to the state minister for cooperatives and small businesses Sri Ernawati said here Thursday.

She said the government had regularly set aside a budget to encourage SMEs to expand their market.

By forming an SME promotion center in each region, SMEs` potential products could be marketed optimally and known widely by tourists visiting the regions, she said.

In addition, the promotion centers would hopefully become a special attraction to tourists and a venue to exhibit and promote the potential products of the regions, she said.

Jakarta itself has already had a number of SME promotion centers, namely the one in Waduk Melati and Cilandak Town Square which organized sales promotion on Wednesdays, she said.

"This is one of our ways to expand the market of our products," she said.