Monday, July 24, 2017. idEA gets an opportunity to participate in an international seminar of cooperation between the Government of Singapore and Google that is the second-ever Google-SCP program held under the theme "Utilizing Digital Economics for SMEs" and held at NUS Business School, Singapore.

The event only invites exclusively senior government officials, assistant ministers and expert staff from Southeast Asian countries. The purpose of the event is to provide a platform for senior officials to hold deep discussions and exchange best practices and ideas about how Southeast Asian countries can capitalize on the well-being of the digital economy for inclusive growth. These meetings are focused on discussing new policy and approaches for digital economics that address the digital landscape in ASEAN, key trends that change the digital landscape, UKM and Government cooperation, implement data and analytics for UKM-Government success, successful analytics data applications, workshops Interactive to define the role of public policy in ASEAN.

In this activity idEA is represented by Mr. Ferryandi as the idEA board of retail and SME education field. He represented idEA (Indonesia) and became one of the speakers in the discussion panel on "Goverments, SMEs and a Common Digital Future" topic. Another panelist in the discussion was Mr. Gian Javelona, ​​Founder of OrangeApps from the Philippines, Mr. Sitthikit Raviverawan, Founder QueQ from Thailand and Mr. Marcus Bartley Johns, Senior Trade Specialist, Trade & Competitiveness Global Practice, World Bank. Being a moderator in the event is Prof. Alex Capri from NUS Business Schools.

The discussion went smoothly and managed to attract the attention of the attendees who were present, so that the discussion took place interactively. The exposure from Pak Ferryandi (idEA-Indonesia) received a positive response where he got the most questions compared to other panelists. No exaggeration if it indicates that Indonesia and the growth of SMEs Indonesia, especially in terms of digital utilization has its own attraction for countries in Southeast Asia. On separate informal occasions, representatives from Thailand state expressed interest in making bilateral visits and cooperation with Indonesia to learn how to advance SMEs through e-commerce.

So, to the Indonesian SME colleagues do not be sluggish, let's rise, the government of Indonesia support, the private sector should also participate to promote SMEs. Look at our neighboring countries only.