Santripreneur Can Contribute to Indonesian Economy

inesia — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 05:30:11 +0000

Pondok pesantren (ponpes) potentially had to support the implementation of the fourth industrial revolution in Indonesia. This was based on the roadmap of Making Indonesia 4.0, where one of the national priority steps that needed to be implemented was to empower of Indonesian company especially micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME).

“Recently ponpes has taken a part in encouraging the economic growth, because many of them which have built the cooperatives, develop the various business units, both small and medium scale, and also, have business incubators,” said Minister of Industry Airlangga Hartarto.

Ministry of Industry has intensively carrying out the activities of developing of new industrial entrepreneurs and the development of industrial units in the pesantren. It was called the Santripreneur program. “Almost 70 percent of Indonesian businessmen are in MSME sector. This is a quite strong asset to face the industrial revolution 4.0,” said Airlangga.

Airlangga added that ponpes had great potential to create new entrepreneurs and grow the small and medium industries. “This is certainly a gift from God that we should be grateful for. Our potential is very large that supported by a lot of campuses and pesantrens in Indonesia which is not exist in other countries in the world,” he added.

Based on data from the Ministry of Religious Affairs, during the year 2014-2015, in Indonesia there were 28,961 ponpes spread all of the province which had santri of more than 4 million people. From the total of ponpes, 23,331 ponpes or 80 percent of them were in 4 provinces, which were West Java, East Java, Central Java and Banten.

Minister of industry optimistically said that with the development of the digital era today, the students could be a strategic change agent in building the nation and the Indonesian economy in the future. For that reason, Indonesian santri must study seriously in science, both religion and entrepreneurship. They, the majority of millenial generation, also need to understand the latest technology.

Moreover, in the next 10 years, Indonesia would havethe demographic or momentum bonus when the population was dominated by productive age (ages 15-64 had reached 70 percent). Currently Indonesia’s economy is ranked 16th in the world. We believe, according to aspirations in Making Indonesia 4.0, it can be a country that is in the top 10 of the world’s strongest economies by 2030.

Therefore, the ministry of industry was committed to support the development of national Small Medium Industry (IKM) in the era of digital economy, by building an e-commerce platform called e-Smart IKM. The Government have been working with a number of domestic marketplaces to provide IKM e-Smart workshops to several regions in Indonesia, so santri should also take this opportunity.

Until now, there were 1,730 IKM businessmen who have participated in IKM e-Smart workshops. By 2019, The ministry of industry would target to invite up to 10 thousand IKM businessmen in Indonesia to attend the workshop. Government will also build technology centers to improve the acces of IKM to technology acquisitions and provide the mentoring support to encourage the innovation.

Source: Antara

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Pesantrenpreuner, Economic Empowerment Based On Boarding School

inesia — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 05:30:09 +0000

Pesantrenpreneur Program already initiated by the Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association (HIPMI) and inaugurated by President Joko Widodo. The program will be run in an integrated steps, starting from training, mentoring, capitalization, to marketing.

One of the early realization of Pesantrenpreneur Program is the opening of Islamic concept stores called “Ummart” in 10 pesantren which become a medium of marketing for local pesantren products and local Micro Small Medium Enterprise products around the pesantren.

Jokowi has supported all programs about people’s economic empowerment since the beginning. Moreover, he also concerns to increase the development of country’s sharia economy. The new perspectives on the current economic conditions were told to santri. The economic disruption era that marked by the technology based on sharing economy needed to be internalized to santri’s business understanding.

Pesantrenpreneur itself, was a program of strengthening people’s economy based on boarding schools. This program involved HIPMI which fully support by the government, the Indonesian Retail Entrepreneurs Association (Aprindo), and various others.

The purpose of Pesantrenpreneur is to mobilize the economics of young santri to the village areas which is the basis of pesantren. They will support each other with the concept of building from the grass root that runs by the government.