Jakarta, Feb. 11 -- The Ministry of Industry provided assistance to the small and medium industry (IKM) of tempeh chips in Sukabumi, West Java, through a guidance, certification, and equipment restructuring program, facilitating its first export to Saudi Arabia.

"We appreciate CV Kahla Global Persada, which has shared a success story of IKM to penetrate the international market. Hopefully, this achievement can provide sustainable benefits," the ministry's director general of small, medium, and multifarious industries (IKMA), Reni Yanita, noted in a statement on Tuesday.

According to Yanita, tempeh chips played an important role in community empowerment within Indonesia.

She further noted that to be more globally competitive, IKM busine...