Microinsurance Marketplace in Indonesia (MIMPI) is a place for stakeholders in microinsurance industry to interact in a bid to expand access to insurance for low income people. This year’s agenda include Workshop & Proposal Clinic Road Show to nine cities in Indonesia from August 25th to October 5th, 2011 namely Jakarta, Medan, Malang, Surabaya, Denpasar, Bandung, Pontianak, Makassar and Yogyakarta. A couple of follow ups were conducted in Surabaya and Malang early in November 2011. The Workshop & Proposal Clinic gathered all entities in microfinance industry that include insurance companies, universities, NGOs, and else, with total number of attending participants reaching 302 persons. The aim was to provide a space for them to interact and grow innovative ideas into good proposals. During Workshop and Proposal Clinic Road Show, MIMPI also visited 110 institutions to obtain more information and valuable facts related to microinsurance in Indonesia.

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Since its initiation in 2006, MICRA Indonesia has been active in the development of microfinance institutions in Indonesia through capacity building and education. This November, MICRA maintains its dedication by acting as supporting partner for the most established annual international forum on financial literacy, Citi-FT Financial Summit.

Greetings from AMiDA!

We would like to say thanks and appreciate to all participants, partners, donors and especially AMiDA team who worked cooperatively and make this event ran successfully. This year we brought 64 participants, including 14 international participants and local participants who joined this 4th AMiDA. In particular, we had discussed the role of technology to help MFIs to manage a better plan and strategies in order to become a market leader. This year we proudly presents the theme, “Responding to today’s market challenges; the role of technology and market-led strategy. We actually has a different program design of 4th AMiDA which is we tend to focus in the plenary session (morning and afternoon plenary session) in order to find out the recent update of microfinance agenda or their related issues, especially in the development of technology in microfinance sector and of course to share success story to all microfinance institutions that have experienced or engaged in microfinance sector. Hence, we also have five promotion booths; commercial bank, insurance company, and any other microfinance partner company. The purpose is to expand business relations between the members of the institution microfinance, share and promote their company products to others through AMiDA.