JAKARTA, Sept. 20 -- The ASEAN Secretariat held the Workshop on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Data and Statistics: Strengthening the Evidence Base to Support SME Policymaking at their headquarter in Jakarta yesterday.

The workshop gathered 40 participants, comprising policy makers representing the ASEAN Coordinating Committee on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (ACCMSME), participants from national statistics organisations representing the ASEAN Community Statistical System (ACSS), experts from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and ARISE Plus.

The two-day workshop was held in response to the findings and recommendations of the ASEAN SME Policy Index 2018, a report produced by ACCMSME with su...