October 2009 marked the new step for the Indonesian Association of Business & Technology Incubators (AIBI). A meeting hosted by the Incubator for Agribusiness and Agroindustry IPB, Bogor saw more than 26 incubators from all over Indonesia come together for a joint  national meeting to revitalize the AIBI which has laid dormant for about ten years. The business & technology incubator representatives came from Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and East Nusa Tenggara (Timor) and from a range of institutions including universities, government bodies, and the private sector.

Encouraged by the national policy development launched by the Government, the incubators used the momentum to develop a solid new program for AIBI along with new organisational structure and personnel. The Government also established a new body called Innovation Center for Micro and SMEs (PI UMKM) in 2009. PI UMKM is a body under the Coordinating Minister for Economics represented by all Departments in economic affairs including the Department of Finance, Industry, Trade, Cooperatives and SMEs, Research & Technology.

All key personnel of PI UMK attended the national meeting on 8-9 October 2009. They included  the Deputy Coordinating Minister for Industry and Trade from the Coordinating Minister’s Office for Economics, who lead the founding of PI UMKM, the Deputy Minister for Small and Medium Industry from Department of Industry, the Deputy Minister for Policy Assessment from Department of Cooperatives and SMEs, and the Executive Head of PI UMKM. All stressed the importance of AIBI role in assisting incubators to increase SMEs development, and fully supported the strengthening of incubator management and operation. As key speaker Mr Julian Webb Regional Facilitator Asia from infoDev, World Bank delivered a presentation on good management and operating systems for incubators, the need for incubators to establish global networks and the benefit they bring.