Indonesian women are playing a major role in small and medium enterprises (SMEs), chair of Women-20 (W20), Hadriani Uli Silallahi, has said.
“In Indonesia, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) provide 67 percent of job creation. Women play a very big role in creative work or becoming entrepreneurs,” Silallahi noted at the seminar on ‘Women’s Entrepreneurial Empowerment Through Inclusive Business,’ which was held virtually on Tuesday.
Of all SMEs in Indonesia, as many as 62 percent are owned by women at the micro-level, Silalahi said.
“It has become clear that the role of women as entrepreneurs must be empowered. .— Antara