The Foods and Beverages Merchants in Jabodetabek Lost Their Income Until Rp 200 billion

Bad weather that hit several regions in Indonesia is large enough to impact the food and beverage industry in this country. For only the Jabodetabek area, the floods predicted suppress the turnover to 25 percent.

Chairman of the Food and Beverage Association of Indonesia (Gapmmi) Adhi Lukman explained, a decrease of revenue is due to the difficulty of the distribution of products from the factory to the market because of the flooding block. Thus, it spreads on the decline in consumption.

As an overall result, Adhi estimated the food and beverage industry in Jabodetabek lost the income until Rp 200 billion per day. “In the normal situation, the income in each day for this region reached USD 800 billion,” he said on Tuesday (01/21/2014).

It is not only the distribution to the consumer, food and beverage manufacturers must also bear the losses due to the distribution of raw materials from the another region which also faltered.

For example, the transportation of fresh fruit and meat from Central Java, currently takes up to four days. Though, it usually takes only a half day. “Whereas within five days, the fresh raw materials will rot in about 50 percent” he said.

It hasn’t counted yet the losses because the factory could not be operated due to workers who could not get in because of flooding, or because there is no electricity supply due to outages by PLN in some areas.

Despite the losses is in sight, according to Adhi, manufacturers of foods and beverages will not raise their selling prices. Because this problem is only temporary.

"I think Indonesia especially Jakarta floods should always have to think of alternative ways to reduce the losses of the merchants. Semisalnya have tools that can be used to accelerate the delivery of flood or other production. Insurance that provides comfort to open up business opportunities in Jakarta."

Women Entrepreneurs Tend to Be More Professional

Women entrepreneurs have shown their movement in the economic development of Indonesia. The minister of Cooperatives and SMEs Sharif Hasan told a group of women entrepreneurs are proactive in improving the welfare at least in their family.

 “Women Entrepreneurs is a group of active women who have dared to take the initiative in economic development in order to improve the welfare of the family,” said Sharif at the Young Entrepreneur and Independent Young Technopreneur 2014 in Senayan, Wednesday ( 15/01/2014 ).

Moreover, Sharif said that women entrepreneurs tend to be more professional. “Women entrepreneurs are more responsible and professional in managing finances,” he said .

Sharif said the government and banks have supported women entrepreneurs by providing financing access. Such access is expected to provide an opportunity for women entrepreneurs to develop their business.

“In 2013 the business credit (KUR) has exceeded U.S. $ 137 billion to 10 million borrowers. All financial access has been implemented” said Sharif.

"In my opinion, it taka sing again a woman to be an entrepreneur or work. It was done in all to help supplement the family income as well as a force not to be demeaned women. And women can divide his time between work and home that all the makes women become more professional and capable of dividing time."

Ekspor ke Tiongkok Melonjak, Neraca Perdagangan RI Surplus

Jakarta -Neraca perdagangan Maret 2014 mengalami surplus US$ 673,2 juta. Ekspor tercatat US$ 15,21 miliar, lebih besar dibandingkan impor yang US$ 14,54 miliar.

Sementara akumulasi Januari-Maret 2014, neraca perdagangan juga surplus US$ 1,07 miliar, dengan ekspor US$ 44,32 miliar dan impor US$ 43,25 miliar.

"Surplus itu sebenarnya tren yang baik, sama dengan Februari. Jadi gambaran membaik dua bulan berturut-turut," kata Kepala Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) Suryamin pada konferensi pers di kantornya, Jakarta, Jumat (2/5/2014).

Nilai ekspor Maret tumbuh 3,95% dibandingkan Februari. Komponen migas turun 3,24%, dari US$ 2,73 miliar menjadi US$ 2,64 miliar. Sementara non migas naik 5,59% dari US$ 11,9 miliar menjadi US$ 12,57 miliar.

Namun secara kumulatif, ekspor masih melambat 2,42% secara year on year(yoy).

Ekspor non migas masih didominasi oleh bahan bakar mineral sebesar US$ 5,63 miliar dan lemak serta minyak hewan/nabati US$ 5,29 miliar. Pangsa ekspor non migas pun masih didominasi negara-negara tradisional. Seperti Tiongkok US$ 4,93 miliar, Amerika Serikat US$ 3,83 miliar, Jepang US$ 3,57 miliar, ASEAN US$ 7,08 miliar, dan Uni Eropa US$ 4,16 miliar.

Peningkatan ekspor paling tinggi terjadi di Tiongkok untuk beberapa komoditas. Di antaranya lemak dan minyak hewan/nabati naik 35,09%, bahan kimia naik 104,79%, dan bahan kertas naik 8,81%.

Sementara nilai impor Maret tumbuh 5,42% dibandingkan Februari. Komponen migas naik 15,83% dari US$ 3,46 menjadi US$ 4,01 miliar. Non migas naik 1,94% dari US$ 10,33 miliar menjadi US$ 10,53 miliar.

Secara kumulatif Januari-Maret 2014, impor juga melambat 5,27%. 

Impor non migas didominasi oleh mesin dan peralatan mekanik senilai US$ 6,24 miliar dan mesin dan peralatan listrik US$ 4,43 miliar.

Impor juga masih datang dari negara-negara tradisional. Di antaranya adalah Tiongkok US$ 7,15 miliar, Jepang US$ 4,23 miliar, Singapura US$ 2,48 miliar, ASEAN US$ 7,24 miliar, dan Uni Eropa US$ 3,17 miliar.

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"Menurut saya, hal tersebut sudah sangat baik. Indonesia seharusnya sudah harus mulai memperbanyak ekpor dari dapa impor. Karena banyak sekali hasil produksi dalam negri yang sangat layak untuk menjadikan produk ekspor dan Indonesia dapat menjadi Negara yang terpandang karena hasil ekspor yang kualitasnya sangat baik."