Leap-Telkom Digital product team introduced the PaDi UMKM platform to micro, small, and medium enterprises at the 2023 F1 Powerboat World Championship (F1H2O). 

Jakarta, 27 February 2023 – The 2023 F1 Powerboat World Championship (F1H2O) was held on 24-26 February 2023, in Lake Toba, North Sumatra. This international event was able to stimulate North Sumatra's economy, especially in the Lake Toba area with the high demand for accommodation and restaurants and it has kept the micro, small, and medium enterprises busy with guests. PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (Telkom) took part to stimulate the local businesses in Toba regency and North Sumatra province by introducing the PaDi UMKM platform from Leap-Telkom Digital to local micro, small, and medium enterprises. 

The government chose Lake Toba to host the F1H2O because it is one of the government-designated, intensely-developed super priority tourism destinations. PaDi UMKM's presence at the F1H2O event is a concrete evidence that Telkom is accelerating the development of infrastructure and a sustainable digital platform for micro, small, and medium enterprises, which is expected to help them to go digital and reach a wider market, which could boost the regional economy.

Telkom Digital Business Director Fajrin Rasyid said, throughout 2022 and in the previous year, micro, small, and medium enterprises had contributed more than 60% to national gross domestic products. Therefore, micro, small, and medium enterprises play an important role in improving the Indonesian economy. "Telkom is developing PaDi UMKM to boost micro, small, and medium enterprises in the country so that they are able to grow and level up. The presence of PaDi UMKM at the 2023 F1H2O is one of Telkom's efforts to enable micro, small, and medium enterprises in Toba regency and North Sumatra province to take advantage of digital platforms to support their business activities," Fajrin said.

PaDi UMKM is a business-to-business (B2B) platform that brings together state-owned enterprises and micro, small, and medium enterprises in the country. This allows micro, small, and medium enterprises to penetrate their market to state-owned enterprises and boost their business transactions and help improve the micro, small, and medium enterprises' welfare. PaDi UMKM is also in line with President Joko Widodo and State-Owned Enterprise Minister Erick Thohir' mandates, to enable state-owned enterprises and micro, small, and medium enterprises to meet through a digital ecosystem that could further support the micro, small, and medium enterprises' development through the state-owned enterprises' goods or services procurement.

“PaDi UMKM actively organizes many programs to increase micro, small, and medium enterprises income. One of them is the Business Matching event that has been carried out since last year. The first event was held in January 2023, and it was able to secure a transaction value of up to more than 30 billion rupiah for micro, small, and medium enterprises," Fajrin said.

Since its launch in mid-2020, there have been 240 thousand transactions between state-owned enterprises and micro, small, and medium enterprises through PaDi UMKM, which has generated more than 5.1 trillion rupiah. To date, there are 97 state-owned enterprises that are members of the PaDi UMKM as buyers that are ready to procure micro, small, and medium enterprises products, with more than 55 thousand micro, small, and medium enterprises registered on the PaDi UMKM platform. Micro, small, and medium enterprises listed in PaDi UMKM have a greater opportunity to increase their transactions, especially through sales to state-owned enterprises. For further information on PaDi UMKM, please visit: https://leap.digitalbisa.id/our-product/padi-umkm 

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