Opening of Digital Entrepreneurship Academy (DEA) Training Themed Basic Digital Entrepreneurship (KDD) Batch 4 Year 2023

BPPTIK – The Office of Information and Communication Technology Training and Research (BPPTIK) is conducting Batch 4 of Digital Entrepreneurship Academy (DEA) training themed Basic Digital Entrepreneurship (Kewirausahaan Digital Dasar - KDD) Batch 4. The training is done offline and has been carried out on 30 – 31 May 2023, which will be followed by mentoring sessions on 5 – 16 June 2023. The opening ceremony was carried out on Tuesday, May 30 2023.

The opening ceremony began with a report from the organizing committee, Head of BPPTIK, Nusirwan. Seventy nine participants are taking part in this training, all MSME actors (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) from West Java, DKI Jakarta, and Banten. The teaching staff consists of 3 people from partners of the Agency for Research and Human Resources Development on Communications and Informatics (Balitbang SDM Kominfo). The opening was also attended by the Head of Balitbang SDM Kominfo via teleconference.

The training was officially opened by the Head of Baslitbang SDM Kominfo, Hary Budiarto. In his presentation, he stated that Kominfo was given the task by the President of the Republic of Indonesia to implement and accelerate digital transformation. By means of digital technology, business actors can increase access to new customers, increase sales and income, open new access to foreign markets, and facilitate transactions with customers and suppliers. Economic digital transformation is needed to encourage the emergence of an entrepreneurial environment, place more prominent roles in new methods based on Internet platforms, and demonstrate increasingly high market opportunities for prospective entrepreneurs.

He also stated that, based on BPS E-Commerce Statistics for 2021, only 25.92% of businesses carried out e-commerce activities. This shows that businesses in Indonesia are still dominated by conventional types. 50.71% of businesses immediately carried out e-commerce activities when they debuted, and 22.04% started e-commerce activities more than 5 years after their debut. Only 23.45% of businesses have financial reports, while most e-commerce businesses in 2020 did not have financial reports (76.55%). 21,64% of businesses sell their products at the marketplace. The majority (78.36%) make online sales through non-marketplace media, such as social media, instant messaging, e-mail, etc.