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TOP REPORT Calculating The
Potential of
UMKM in Jakarta
Each year, more people in Jakarta are
getting interested in entrepreneurship. It
is doable to achieve the target of 200,000
entrepreneurships.
n a Saturday evening in the end of February,
the Food and Creative Park area in Tham-
Orin 10 was getting hyped. Series of events
were held, from the UMKM (Micro, Small and Me-
6 dium Enterprises) bazaar to talkshows with vari-
ous themes and leading interviewees. Also, there
were workshops about urban farming, waste re-
cycle and trainings to make bath soaps. It was all
conducted in part of the Naturale Market event
which lasted for two days.
The festive Thamrin 10 was due to the pres-
ence of all the visitors and the UMKM practitioners
coming from all Jakarta. That day was a celebra-
tion they longed to see, as the Jakpreneur was be-
ing offiicially launched by the Provincial Govern-
ment of DKI Jakarta (Pemprov DKI).
“Thamrin 10 is the take off point for those who
owned the willingness, the spirit to move further,
to sell their products in the mainstream Jakarta’s
markets,” said the Governor Anies Rasyid Baswe-
dan in his opening speech at Naturale Market.
There were approximately 60 stalls of culi- the Naturale Market were currated to
naries in Thamrin 10, all of which are the UMK- mark the launch of Jakpreneur, a new
Ms under the Jakarta’s Department of Industry, program designed for the develop-
Trade, Cooperatives, Small and Medium Enter- ment of UMKM in Jakarta.
prises (PPKUKM). They were selling various of
creative culinary products which have been curat- The Important Role of UMKM
ed earlier by the experts. Besides food and bever-
age outlets, there were also areas designed as a According to the census of eco-
creative space to grow crative economic sides in nomic data collected by the Statis-
Jakarta. tics of DKI Jakarta in 2016, the busi-
Thamrin 10 is a sign that Pemprov DKI Jakar- ness sectors in Jakarta were being
ta has fully supported the UMKM sectors. In fact, dominated by UMKMs with total of