CREATE OUR OWN LUCK
Indonesia
now only have 0.38% entrepreneurs of our population while Malaysia has 3% and
Singapore has 7%. We need the minimum 2% of population to be entrepreneurs to
gain nation’s prosperity. As entrepreneurs create jobs and change life one
person at a time.
We
still have plenty of room to grow, more than 50% of population are young people
under 29 years old, and we have the biggest market out of 650 million people in
South East Asia. All we need to do is starting. Big or small
business, the most important thing is to start moving. Because as you move, no
matter how small step you take, you’ll be ‘lucky’ - Create Your Own Luck
Ibu
Mari Elka Pangestu said, “Real role of entrepreneurs stretches beyond
business, because entrepreneurs great assets are their idea, creativity and
innovation. Entrepreneurs tackle group problems of poverty and inequity and
their innovations enable us to have a better life as well as to lead from
development, so it is also about reducing poverty.”
She
also mentioned the terms of productive poor and it struck us.
The 70% productive poor are women. They are poor but that it doesn’t
mean that they are not productive. They can be productive if you give them
training to the point that they can become entrepreneurs.
Eric
Schmidt from Google said that Indonesia has a loud democracy, a flourishing society, and an
integrated media. Indonesian freedom of expression is something we should be
proud of. BBC said Indonesia is the best place in the world to start a
business, and it’s a sign for all of us to maximized our potential.
Social
entrepreneurs like Tri Mumpuni has a
formula : find out what’s the
problem in society and offer solutions.
Tri
Mumpuni saw problems on how Indonesian people in rural area are less developed
than the urban. She analyzed that it could be because the lack of access of
technology, because there are no electricity in those areas.
She
& her husband then starting to find solution, helping villages to create
and manage their own electricity, using it for their village development to the
point where PLN from the government buy the electricity from them and the fund
can be used to build schools and access to education. Amazing!
Gita
Wirjawan, chairman of Indonesia’s Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM), said the
key of success are the confident to take risk and not afraid to make
mistakes (as long as you learn from it and don’t do the same mistake again),
education (never stop learning), networking (don’t be timid) and luck that you
get from opportunities meet preparation.
Quoting
secretary Clinton, “And we particularly want to encourage women
entrepreneurs, because, as the minister said, no economy can thrive if it
leaves half the population behind. In fact, a recent United Nations study
estimated that in the Asia Pacific region, the untapped potential of women has
cost the region more than $40 billion in lost GDP over the last decade. So
we’re supporting new micro finance projects, building peer networks, and
offering mentorships with American businesswomen.”
In
sync with Secretary Clinton. we strongly believe in promoting technology as
catalyst for women development, either in personal area or in business.
Indonesian
people, included young one and women already familiar with social media (we’re
#2 Facebook Users after USA), but they have no idea on how to use technology
more than chat or status update. For the older women, the problem is different.
They’re afraid and don’t want to complicate their life with technology hehe.
That’s the challenges.
Entrepreneurs
face the same problem all over the world, one of them is the fear of failure
(self confidence in building business). Aside from training & education,
Indonesian people (especially women) need more mentors & role models for entrepreneurs
that they can look up to. So, entrepreneurs, if you are there, show up and be
an inspiration for others.
“The
big questions finally is how can we have a program and an ecosystem for this
entrepreneurs that makes the good idea to help them turn these ideas
into reality and help them to nurture it for it to become sustainable,” said bu
Mari Elka.
We
should plan to create a meet up with topic “Creative and Startup Founders”
where we will invite some startup founders and we’re going to throw a pitching
session special for people who have
great ideas, hopefully from there they can find partners. And there are many
great technical people in our community,
of course if it’s fit with the vision,
some of them can also join the incubation
Our
creative community should be going strong and we have to plan to invite inspiring
people to speak at some of our events. Hope we can help spread the sparks!
!by
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