Empowering SMEs is one of the national priorities in "Making Indonesia 4.0". One way to empower SMEs towards Indonesia 4.0 is by developing an e-commerce platform for SMEs or SMEs e-commerce. Despite the large potential of SMEs in Indonesia, there are still very few of those utilizing e-commerce. Especially in the current era of globalization, SMEs need to keep up with technology to be able to compete with other businesses. Establishing SMEs' e-commerce is not easy, given that the SMEs' characteristics are different from other businesses. Therefore, several things need to be considered in developing SMEs' e-commerce. Using a qualitative descriptive analysis approach, those to be accounted as consideration include clear legal protection, reliable workforce, adequate infrastructure, banking support, and government support. It is expected that by considering the number of important points, SMEs' e-commerce will be increasingly formed so that Indonesia 4.0 can be achieved.
Information and communications technology (ICT) would drive the acceleration of digitalization era, including dynamics of trade flow among ASEAN countries, both in low or high-tech also. Basically each country has different resources, and so why many factors must be known to be a winner. This aim of study was to analyze the impact of ICT existence on ASEAN trade flows. Panel data for 10 ASEAN countries for a period from 2012 to 2016 was employed to construct Gravity Model. To estimate that model, we applied Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML). All data came from World Bank, WITS, CEPII, IMF, and ITU. The result showed that ICT has significantly positive impacts on both trade flow ASEAN market. If we elaborated in detail, according to (a) the sector, ICT in trade of hi-tech commodities was more attractive effort than low-tech commodities and (b) the existence, the adult literacy rate as ICT skills was more dominant factor influenced in trade flow among ASEAN countries compare ICT access and usage. Some policy recommendations were how to develop workers' skills, mitigation issue on digital economy, and develop domestic ICT industry.
One of the main problems faced by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is the problem of marketing. However in the current era of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, marketing should not be a problem anymore. SMEs can utilize the internet to solve their marketing problem. This paper aims to describe how to utilize the internet as medium for marketing SMEs products. This paper is descriptive by using a qualitative approach. The results of the study reveal that the internet can open access for SMEs to marketing their product at a low cost and reach a wide market. First, SMEs can create a website about their business and products through website creation service providers. Second, SMEs can also use social media as their marketing channel. SMEs can utilize then business platform in social media such as Facebook fo Business, Google My Business, and Instagram for Business as marketing media. Third, SMEs can utilize e-commerce, which has rapidly increased in Indonesia. There are several forms of e-commerce in Indonesia, such as classified ads, retailers, and marketplace websites. All these marketing media will greatly help the SMEs in the marketing process because they are connected to a wide range of market by the internet and are not limited to space.
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