Bureaucratic Reform in East Java Province Trade: Review of MSMEs

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10.2991/aebmr.k.200606.035How to use a DOI?

Keywords

bureaucratic reform, trade, MSME

Abstract

The Indonesia’s trade balance experienced two times deficit, in January (US $ 1.06 billion) and April 2019 (US $ 2.29 billion). Then, the government examined the needs and potential of Indonesia’s bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, and increased utilization of foreign trade representatives. This study aims to improve the quality of SMEs in East Java Province through bureaucratic reform using qualitative analysis. The results show the diversity of bureaucracy associated with SMEs is overlapping. Therefore, a new breakthrough is needed to facilitate export potential SMEs to be able to compete with imported commodities and reach international markets. Bureaucratic reform begun from the readiness of SMEs including internal production and compliance with standards for export destination countries, and then clarity of destination markets through government assistance in the form of business adjustments, free trade agreements, etc.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Desak Nyoman Siksiawati
AU  - Asfi Manzilati
AU  - Lailatul Maghfiroh
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/06/09
TI  - Bureaucratic Reform in East Java Province Trade: Review of MSMEs
BT  - Proceedings of the 23rd Asian Forum of Business Education(AFBE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 211
EP  - 216
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200606.035
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200606.035
ID  - Siksiawati2020
ER  -