Fostering Youth Entrepreneur Soul’s in Indonesia Towards Cheerful prescription, isn’t it?

Posted: December 14, 2011 in Think Entrepreneur

Fostering Youth Entrepreneur Soul’s in Indonesia

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Cheerful prescription, isn’t it?

         Zero point one eight percent (0.18%) is the entrepreneur percentages rate in Indonesia and only one quarter or zero point zero four five are(0.045%) from youth generation (BPS 2010).After read that statement ,the question that might visible on your mind is why this ironic incident could be happen? Are you satisfied with this amount?  Is there something wrong the system? Come back to real society, when we ask ten of our friends about what the preferences if they graduated from university , in average six to ten respondent absolutely reply that they desire to get job at multinational company and only 2 until 3 who answer I want to be real entrepreneur. What happens, why they prefer to work? Whereas to be an entrepreneur we can manage other people and life without reprimand from our boss. Despite, the bigger proportion workforce can be absorb is from informal sector, we still did not realize how big the benefits an entrepreneur. In addition we would like emphasize the inspirational words from Mr Putera Sampoerna that Education and Job Creation are the cornerstones to a foundation for the creation of dynamic, peaceful, and prosperous countries and societies”(Putera Sampoerna,2011). This kinds question will be answered on this essay and we also try to identify the best approach to boost and teach entrepreneurship to young generation as part of entrepreneurial development in the right approach.

       The First enigma that we would like to observe are why youth prefer became employee to entrepreneur? Come back again to reality, the oddity which still occurs in the society especially Javanese, if they have suitor who work in government sector or as bureaucrat, it can make they prouder than got suitor who not work as civil servants. Another reason is around seventy fifth percent (75%) Indonesian person tend to save taker than risk taker; it reflected when government sector has open job vacancy, absolutely or one hundred percent more than 2-5 million people apply on this job. This kind of bad paradigm that should we change.

The second enigma, Is there something any wrong with the system? Recently our educational system does not touch to the core of entrepreneurship. Study business in high school even in university are thick delegated to those who aren’t considered smart enough to catch up science subjects. Many school curriculums concern on rote learning to exam passes, but entrepreneurial nutritional requires the encouragement of innovative ideas and thinking outside the box.The small desire percentage of graduates who literally aspire to their own businesses, its unstructured educational outlet where they can learn the tools and techniques to successfully operate an company. Some people convince which doing a business only pick up a small common sense, and that with a little short courses in business planning and marketing.Meanwhile , financing for start-up business is always a challenge, and obtaining funding is even harder for young people.Even though we have a good business plan; we still got difficult taste to search an alternative funding place. The causes as the high failure rate for new businesses; this is the core reason why financial institutions are afraid to give fund with new entrepreneurs without any collateral. This is identify the main reason, as many businesses actually collapse because of a lack of enough capital.

Therefore, we already know the causes why entrepreneur rate is too which became entrepreneur is going to fun and can help another person to get a job. Then, how we encourage especially to youth generation became real entrepreneur? Build upon, causes an entrepreneurial stimulation requires the encouragement of innovative ideas and thinking outside the box. We need fundamentals teaching in entrepreneur suppose to be a lot fun and smile, how it does works? Basically without great idea to establish business, we can not be a good entrepreneur. Through cheerful prescription our mind will easy to thinking the nice idea because on that circumstances our brains release hormone like dopamine that give relax feel and the affect our brains can think easily. I was inspiring when I saw the Google office where the design is comfortable and the result is the employee who works in Google got only little inconvenience on their works and they can work in the creative way.

Moreover, we can arrange another fun recipe towards create youth entrepreneur community and Business plan competition challenges. Through this community as young generation, it can be help them to get networking, learn from the other entrepreneur experienced, and even create business together, why not? Because as success entrepreneur we would like to have a lot of relation or network like nice and deep means mission statement “Your network is your net worth (MEKAR mission statement)” and also might within this competition, young generation motivated to be an entrepreneur.

Furthermore,If we are serious and concern about nurturing our youth towards entrepreneur teaching, we have to build and implementing relevant programmes within the school system.Guidance to know entrepreneurial potential must be provided and make all subject appropriate with real-world opportunities.Mentoring is a vital tool to teach youngsters how to control the tricky pitfall of business, and established entrepreneurs which can provide this support in association with another young entrepreneur generation.In addition encouraging progressive business owners to consider providing venture capital support to young persons with solid business ideas. This financial assistance and managerial support will help to ensure a higher success rate among youth entrepreneurs.The government should also look at establishing business stimulator for young entrepreneurs where they can training ,funding ,update info ,competition and everything which could be access easily or touch all the society.

In brief, became an entrepreneur give positive impact to the society for instance we can help to cut down the unemployment rate and give contributed for positive economic growth. Furthermore, as an entrepreneur we can manage other people and life without reprimand from our boss. In contrast is difficult to fostering entrepreneur souls in Indonesia, because the society prefer to be save taker (became a civil servants) than risk taker. However, we can try and struggle to boost increasing youth entrepreneur towards cheerful prescription for example design a curriculum that requires the encouragement of innovative ideas and thinking outside the box ,youth entrepreneur community and competition, and mentoring. These are only became a garbage plan if every part such as society, nirlaba organization and also the government can not be elaborate as a principle Together, We Can Make a Differences.

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