Entrepreneurship menjadi Pebisnis Ulung (Indonesian Edition)

Synopsis: The micro and small medium scale entrepreneurs has proven that they survived the global crises that also hit Indonesia. It shows that micro and small medium enterprise have strong foundation and tough. We can conclude that economy should be built by developing various business sectors and create new entrepreneurs with good understanding of business and all its aspects. Entrepreneurs plays a big role for the society to support economic development. Owners of small and medium enterprise creates millions of employment opportunity, improve welfare, increase education, and improve competitiveness in international market. The global crises has made poverty eradication harder to achieve. In 2009, there are 33.713.000 impoverished people in Indonesia, way above government's target of 32.380.000 (Kompas, February 13th, 2009) In 2007, there are 740.206 unemployed university graduate. It shows that there are not enough jobs in Indonesia to cater for more graduates each year. Various government programs hasn't shown the wanted result. The spirit of entrepreneurship in university environment and community in general should be administered to encourage the emergence of new entrepreneurs. To overcome unemployment, Indonesia with 220 millions of population needs 4,4 millions of entrepreneurs or about 2 percent of the populace, while the current number of entrepreneur is only 400.000. We need to encourage entrepreneurship spirit by providing knowledge and strategy to develop, grow and win business competition so that they create new employments to deal with joblessness and poverty. This book is written in that spirit, how to encourage entrepreneurship and provide information for entrepreneurs. Hopefully it will be a good contribution for the improvement of human capital in the nation. (http://www.gramediainternational.com/book/detail/9789792781403)