3. SME EXPORTERS: PROFILE, USES OF ICT AND 

PERCEPTION OF REGIONAL AUTONOMY  

3.1. Profile of SME Exporter Respondents 

The interview conducted in this study is to collect the data of small and medium 

enterprises exporter from 8 big cities in Indonesia.  The total of respondent 

surveyed are 417 SME exporters with the total number of SME in each city as 

follows: Medan (53), Lampung (50), Jakarta (63), Bandung (50), Yogyakarta (50), 

Surabaya (50), Denpasar (51), dan Makasar (50). 

Of the 414 responses given by SME exporter, the types of business were divided 

into three categories, namely: industry/manufacture (52,2%), agriculture (9,2%), 

trade (38.3%). The legal statuses of the enterprises are as follows: Limited 

Liability Company, Ltd., Inc./ PT (52,4 %), Limited Partnership/CV (23,9%), 

Cooperative (1,7%), Trade business (UD) and others (22%). 

Based on 389 answers given by the SME exporter it is found the total employees 

were as follows: total employees 1 6 persons (13,9 %), total employees 7   50 

persons (45,2 %), total employees 51   100 persons (16,5 %), total employees 101 

  200 persons (12,6 %), total employees 201   499 persons (9 %), and total 

employees more than 500 persons (2,8 %).  

Based on the status of share ownership, the SME exporter (404 respondent's) 

answers were mostly under the status of private/national owned enterprises 

(90,3%), foreign owned enterprises (2,2%), and joint venture (7,4%).  

In terms of the per annum turnover, of the 345 answers, the SME are consist of: 

36,6 % of enterprises with turnover less than 200 million per annum, 38 % of 

enterprises with turnover 200 million to 1 billion per annum, 17,7 % of enterprises 

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