Incubie Holds 2nd Technical Assistantship for 45 Tenants
IPB Business Incubator (Incubie) consistently continues to assist Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in order to improve their capacity in managing businesses so that they can become independent, strong, professional, and competitive. So was said by Incubie Chairman Prof. Dr. Memen Surahman at the 2nd Technical Training for the development of SMEs through Incubator Business of Higher Education, on Wednesday (8/5) at Hotel Salak Bogor on Juanda Street.
This activity, officially opened by the Secretary of the Institute of Research and Community Service (LPPM) IPB Dr Sulistiono, is the result of cooperation with the Indonesian Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs. The 2nd Technical Training is followed by 45 selected small-medium businesses from Bogor, Bekasi, Purwakarta, Sukabumi, and Tasikmalaya. These businesses are 62 percent engaged in food processing, 22 percent in on-farm agribusiness, and 16 percent in small creative industries sector.
This technical training presents the resource persons who are competent in their fields from universities and private institutions as well as practitioners with the training materials on certification of halal products of SMEs, practice in the preparation of halal assurance systems, barcode systems, production / processing technology management, and online marketing system.
In the same place, Head of the Business Incubator Division Dr Rokhani Hasbullah said, the SMEs in their activities are expected to produce a product with the quality criteria: Healthy, Safe, and Halal. It is therefore necessary for them to receive assistantship in developing a standard operating procedure to ensure a well-controlled production system.
"Another equally important thing is for the SMEs to be able to penetrate the modern and even international market, so the Business Incubator of IPB facilitated them with the inclusion of barcodes on the packages of their products, by collaborating with the GS1 barcode institution based in Bandung West Java. We are sure with the good quality of SME products in attractive packages with a barcode, they will be able to penetrate the modern market and even export," said Dr. Rokhani.
On the other hand, Prof. Memen said that
he is constructing a joint marketing outlet located at Jln Sukasari I No. 12 A Phone 0251-8375444. This outlet is a place for SMEs to market products jointly, managed by the Business Incubator Cooperative, and intended as a "show window" for the SME to support online marketing / e-market. The e-market can be visited on the web site address: incubie.ipb.ac.id. (Mtd)
