Brilliant Achievement, Pertamina Recorded 6.731 Upgraded Fostered Partners in 3 Years

Jakarta, September 21, 2021 – The number of PT Pertamina (Persero) fostered partners who are declared to be upgraded is increasing. Moreover, in the last 3 years, the number has touched more than 6.700 upgraded MSEs. All of this is inseparable from strategic programs arranged by Pertamina through Program Pendanaan UMK (PUMK) to encourage fostered partners to be upgraded MSEs.

Acting Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations of Pertamina, Fajriyah Usman explained that currently, Pertamina has 9 (nine) leading programs to empower MSEs and encourage them to upgrade. “The fostered partners will be fostered to be Go Modern, Go Digital, Go Online, or Go Global MSEs according to the condition of their business based on the result of the curation,” she said.

In more detail, Fajriyah said that toward the end of the third trimester of 2021, there are a total of 44 MSEs that have upgraded. Plus, 120 UMK Academy 2021 participants, in which this program is an acceleration program for MSEs to upgrade. Whereas in 2020, there are 795 upgraded MSEs, and in 2019 there are 535 upgraded MSEs. Therefore, the total of upgraded PUMK fostered partners are 1.886 MSEs.

Further, this total is added with fostered partners from Rumah BUMN (RB) that is managed by Pertamina. This is a collaboration between Pertamina and the Ministry of SOE to build a common place to gather, learn, and foster the MSEs in 30 places in Indonesia. From the total of 9.550 RB fostered partners, 50,7% or 4.845 of them were declared as upgraded MSEs.

All of those MSEs, continued Fajriyah, were declared upgraded after fulfilling several criteria upgraded MSE. For instance, experiencing an increase in turnover, production capacity, employees, additional certification and business permits, expansion of marketing, to involving surrounding community or sociopreneur in the business ecosystem.

One of the fostered partners that are declared as upgraded MSE is Ratna Indrawati. The owner of Ratna Artshop that produces various rattan crafts in Bali and West Nusa Tenggara experienced an increase in turnover compared to before becoming Pertamina’s fostered partner. “Before becoming Pertamina’s fostered partner, the turnover was IDR 40 million per month. Currently, it can reach IDR 90 million every month,” said Ratna.

There is also Suwono, one of Mojokerto RB fostered partners, the owner of Kusen Tiga Putri MSE who is also happy being able to sell his furniture product to South Korea. He uses that achievement to continuously improving the quality standard and the product’s quality that he produces. “Hopefully in the future, we can constantly export our products abroad and evolve to other countries,” he said.

According to Fajriyah, through PUMK program, Pertamina wants to provide energy that can move the economy--energy that fuels and energy that produce sustainable growth.

Pertamina also supports SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) achievements by implementing ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)-based programs in all of its operational areas. It is part of the environmental and social responsibility (TJSL) to realize economic benefits in the community.**