In cooperation with the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo), the Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneurs Community (Permit), the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry: China Committee (KIKT) and the Indonesian Business Association of Shanghai (IBAS), the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) organized a visit of  a 50-member SMEs group to Shanghai and Nanjing from July 26 to 30, with a view to exploring possible ways of cooperation.
This visit was one of the programs to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Indonesian-Chinese diplomatic relations.

The ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) will only be fruitful if there is a win-win situation where both sides will benefit. As I see it, the most important instrument to reach that goal is to empower Indonesian SMEs, which are instrumental in our efforts to create equity in our economic developments.

If growth is the goal of big companies, equity is mainly the goal of the SMEs.