Acara Quarterly Seminar Side Event G20 Indonesia “Empowering Women Entrepreneurs through Inclusive Business”
The economic and natural resource sector attended the G20 Indonesia Side Event Seminar "Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Through Inclusive Business" which was held online on Tuesday, 22/03/22.
The purpose of implementing the seminar is to prioritize Indonesian SMEs as beneficiaries in Indonesia's G20 with collaboration of various parties in the context of recovery of SMEs.
empowering women's entrepreneurs in the involvement of SMEs in the green economy and digital economic push for SME businesses is supported based on the role of women who have a major impact in overcoming the impact of Pandemi and employment creation and play a role in economic growth that is a continuation
In Indonesia MSMEs contribute 60% of GDP and women as managers and owners of more than half of MSMEs in this country. MSMEs that are managed and owned tend to employ other women in their business, so that the number of women involved in MSMEs is increasing.
women's entrepreneurs need support from the government in the form of financing access, export support, development and training for employees, improving product quality, and infrastructure, especially in rural areas.
Linggar Meeting of Lestari Regency (LTKL) adds industrial values that focus on protecting ecosystems such as the industrial and technology, health and drug sectors.
through the integration of LTKL continuously building female entrepreneurs to be more productive and create an ecosystem that can encourage them and involve all stakeholders to be able to share the success stories of female entrepreneurs.
Challenges in empowering women, namely lack of confidence and difficulty in finding a supporting system for female entrepreneurs in terms of the problem of the location of goegraphic, the level of education and different perspectives.
female entrepreneurs are often seen as a group. Meanwhile, they can be categorized based on growth orientation, namely high and stable growth.
Most female entrepreneurs have difficulty in basic financial management, which has an impact on the low level of investment readiness where capital costs will be higher for women.
gender equality in budgeting by creating an inclusive and innovative economic model that works for women with a focus on achieving human welfare
Investing education support is needed to ensure women and children have access and participate in pre-school education to higher education, including early education and steam programs, support technical and vocational training, digital skills, finance and entrepreneurship, and lifelong learning to enable women to get quality jobs by continuing their education and progress during career pause.
