Jakarta: Financing is an important aspect in maintaining stability and growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) despite the diverse challenges of MSME financing, Finance Ministry's Expert Staff for Macroeconomics and International Finance, Suminto, stated.
"The financing challenges vary, ranging from limited access to financing, high transaction costs, collateral problems, unbalanced information, to limited access to markets and business networks," Suminto stated during the Annual Islamic Finance Conference (AIFC) as quoted from an official statement here on Friday.
Suminto emphasized the need for the government to effectively integrate the financing framework with the development of MSMEs.
He called to take into account four keys for empowering MSMEs through Islamic finance, including the need for a complete and solid empowerment framework, regulatory support, incentives, and the position of Islamic finance in the MSME ecosystem, involving youth and women in the efforts to empower MSMEs and conduct MSME development in a formal and clear manner.
On the same occasion, Director of DinarStandard Sayd Farook stated that Islamic technology-based financial companies are developing quite rapidly, especially for MSME financing.
The amount of financing for MSMEs by fintech is expected to grow, from US$79 billion in 2021, to US$179 billion in 2026.
"Currently, countries with the largest developments in Islamic technology-based finance are Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia," he remarked.
Meanwhile, Co-Founder and Group Managing Director of Ethis Group Umar Munshi also emphasized the importance of digitalization within the framework of waqf crowdfunding, zakat, alms, and distribution of working capital with the qard hassan scheme, or without interest or additional fees.
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