Apkasi Otonomi Expo (AOE) 2024: Trade, Tourism & Investment become a promotional event that attracted many attention ranging from buyers, investors and the general public who wanted to know the development of their hometown.
President Jokowi who formally opened the event, and the attending ministers & state officials congratulated and gave a high appreciation to the Apkasi for organizing such an enormous event as the largest commodity trade, tourism and investment exhibitions in the country. In fact, the Vice President-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka has made the time to visit almost all the stands. The Minister of Youth and Sports, Dito Ariotedjo, attended for the closing ceremony of AOE 2024.
The presence of various groups from buyers, investors to state officials from year to year of its implementation, the Apkasi Otonomi Expo has become a benchmark for promotional activities for superior regional commodities in the country. In the recent years of AOE (esp. in 2024), Apkasi has tried to implement the AOE not only as the event for exhibiting commodities and investments, but also to combine with the Procurement of Goods and Services Exhibition, which is usually held separately. As it turned out, this has received a positive feed-back from the local government’s goods and services providers as well as the end users. The “buyers” of these goods and services are mostly form local governments, so combining the 2 (two) events is considered to be very effective.
In 2025, Apkasi would therefore continue to combine these two activities with the title “Apkasi Otonomi Expo 2025: Trade, Tourism, Investment & Procurement”.
By conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the implementation of the previous events, we believe that the AOE 2025 will be even better with total transactions exceeding the previous event.
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Apkasi Otonomi Expo atau lebih dikenal dengan AOE adalah kegiatan pameran tahunan yang diselenggarakan oleh Asosiasi Pemerintah Kabupaten Seluruh Indonesia (Apkasi). Kegiatan ini merupakan salah satu tugas pokok dan fungsi Apkasi yang mewadahi 416 pemerintah kabupaten di seluruh Indonesia, khususnya dalam memfasilitasi promosi komoditi unggulan, peluang investasi dan destinasi prioritas pariwisata yang dimiliki oleh anggotanya.
Brand AOE sendiri sudah melekat dalam event pameran ini selama 6 tahun terakhir, di mana sebelumnya event yang sama menggunakan nama yang berbeda-beda, di antaranya: Kabupaten Expo, Otonomi Expo, dan terakhir menggunakan Apkasi International Trade and Investment Summit (AITIS) pada 2016. Kini di tahun 2024, AOE merupakan ajang ke-19 kalinya.