Forum For Economist International: The 4th Global Conference

On 31 May 2014-1 June 2014 in Zilveren Toren, Amsterdam, The Netherlands we participated in an international economic conference, held annually by the Forum For International Economist. The conference titled “The 4th Global Conference” is the fourth conference held the forum. The Forum was chaired by Prof. dr. M. Peter van der Hoek who is also the Chair Forum Program For International Economist. At the conference, participants were able to exchange ideas and research results not only with the global economic community, but also with other related disciplines.

First and foremost we wish to convey our gratitude to DDTC Indonesia who sponsored our departure to the Netherlands. Thanks in particular for the whole team of DDTC’s Tax Research and Training Services Team who has guided, advised us, as well as providing input in the completion of our paper. Thanks to reference books from DDTC’s tremendous and complete, we managed to write a better paper.

We as representatives from Indonesia were the youngest participants as indeed all the participants in the forum were at least holders of Ph.D. and some were professors from various universities in the world. The title of the research in the paper we adopted is “Optimization of Tax Policy in Strengthening Small and Medium Enterprises Sector in Indonesia (Review of Government Regulation Number 46 Year 2013 About Income Tax on Income From Business Received or Accrued By Tax Payer Which Has Certain Gross Turnover)” , We chose the topic of SMEs as it is a current issue in Indonesia, we looked at the contribution of SMEs to the GDP of Indonesia which reached 57.83% in 2010 and 57.60% in 2011, but was not accompanied by its contribution to tax revenues in Indonesia which only measured to 0.7% in 2013.