(Jakarta News) Ruan Yonggang, Secretary-General of Organizing Committee of ASEAN E-Commerce Exhibition, Xu Liang, Assistant Project Director, and Wang Yi Zhong, Assistant Director, visited the Chamber of Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia on Tuesday, September 5 at 2:00 p.m. and were invited by Executive Vice President Zhang Jinxiong , Vice Chairman Xie Yinglong, Secretary General Zhou Weiliang, Shang Xuan, He Yiyong, Ji Guozhang, Bai Songji, Yao Huqin, Lin Songshi and Chen Yijing.
Zhang Jinxiong said: "As the representative of emerging economies and the only G20 country in ASEAN, the rapid development of Indonesia in e-commerce over the past two years has also shown Indonesia's tremendous potential for development in the digital economy. Data show that in 2016 With about 20 million online shopping users in Indonesia, the total size of e-commerce transactions in the country reached 5.6 billion U.S. dollars, showing the potential of Indonesia as the largest economy in Southeast Asia for developing its digital economy. "
In the meantime, in the past two years, with the development of electronic commerce, the number of Internet financial enterprises in Indonesia increased by 78%. At the same time, we have seen that President Zhukovic recently signed the first "e-commerce road map" in our history and officially invited Mr. Ma to serve as an adviser to the Indonesian government's e-commerce Steering Committee. This includes a group of finance ministers, The new department, made up of the president and the president's chief of staff, contains almost all of Indonesia's economic real power.
From this, we can see that our government is currently determined to develop e-commerce, boost the development of small and medium-sized micro-enterprises in Indonesia, encourage individuals to start businesses through e-commerce platforms and promote the accelerated economic development of Indonesia. With the rapid development of global science and technology, the penetration rate of smart devices, especially smart phones, in Indonesia is gradually increasing. In 2016, the number of smartphone users in Indonesia has reached nearly 70 million and is expected to exceed 100 million by 2018, at which point Indonesia will become the next China, India, the United States after the fourth largest smartphone user country. Meanwhile, Indonesia's mobile network coverage and network performance are continuously expanding with the continuous construction of Indonesia's infrastructure.
At present, Indonesia has more than 130 million netizens, and the government is still accelerating its network coverage. In today's thriving global e-commerce, Indonesia's domestic Internet companies are also favored by international investors, while more and more people begin to try various services such as online shopping and online recharging, which will surely become the development of Indonesia's e-commerce Important driving force. At present, compared with China and other countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Indonesia's e-commerce development still faces many challenges.
However, we believe that the future belongs to young people and Indonesia can seize the opportunity to develop unique Internet-based e-commerce in Indonesia in the current round of rapid development of digital economy. We also hope to have more opportunities and ASEAN e-commerce development and communication department to better serve you better promote Indonesia and ASEAN cooperation in the development of e-commerce Finally, I wish you a tour of Indonesia, a complete success!
Ruan briefed on the general situation of China-ASEAN E-commerce Exhibition. The Chinese government also attaches great importance to its cooperation with the Indonesian government in e-commerce. Through this platform, Indonesian SMEs and industry players can help solve the difficulties of entering the Chinese market and provide them with these enterprises Best service, and plans to hold an e-commerce seminar in Jakarta in March next year, hoping to get the support of the leaders of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia. After the representatives of both sides concluded exchanges, they presented souvenirs and posed for pictures.
