[Unpad.ac.id, 4/02/2013] The number of Indonesian entrepreneurs in 2012 has only reached 1.56% of its total population. Despite 0.24% increase from the previous year, the ideal number should reach at least 2%.
“This year we need more or less 800 entrepreneurs to finally be able to reach the ideal number,” said Prakoso Budi Setio, the Deputy for Human Resource Development Division, the Ministry o Cooperative and Medium Enterprises when speaking in a road show “National Entrepreneurship 2013” in Bale Santika Unpad, Jatinangor, on Monday (4/02). Also speaking in the event were Benny Saerang from the Unpad Student Bureau and Eni Saeni, the head of TEMPO bureau of West Java and Banten.
“Students should shift their orientation from seeking degree in order to get jobs.” They should have initiative to start their own business. “The main point of being an entrepreneur is to imagine and practice. Should they be faced with failure, it is only a path leading to success.”
Department of Cooperative is willing to help students to become entrepreneurs. They provide financial assistance through “National Entrepreneurship Program” (GKN) 2013 which encourages students and community members at large to start a business plan.
There are approximately 1000 proposals that students from all over Indonesia have submitted. The Ministry of Cooperative and Medium Enterprises is rewarding the best and the most feasible proposal with a large sum of financial benefit in the amount of Rp. 25 million.
Seeing this open opportunity, Unpad is collaborating with the Entrepreneurship Division, Unpad Student Executive Body to promote the program. The program will definitely help Unpad students to develop their own businesses.
