The Government had made
universities in the regions as strategic medium to develop capacity of
micro-and-small business players through training programs in entrepreneurship
in Indonesia. In this case tertiary schools must actively operate their
incubator centers to promote small business capability in entrepreneurship. To
quite data of the Central Board of Statristics [BPS] the number of national
entrepreneurs today was 1.56% of total population, still below the
international standard of 2% of total population
By theory, tertiary schools were believed to have their
comparative advantage in playing their role to fulfill UKMK’s need. For example
in terms of human resources capacity, technical counseling, and to build the
spirit of entrepreneurship as well as capital management. Why was incubators
needed to develop UKM ? The answer was because the number of national
entrepreneurs were still Low. Therefore incubator centers under university
guidance were highly potential to promote UMKM capacity.
Today the pioneering effort to develop incubators
sponsored by four national universities had succeeded in making entrepreneurs
through publicizing. Deputy of Small Business Resources Development of the
Ministry of Cooperatives and UKM Meliadi Sembiring stated in Jakarta on Monday
[14/4] that the development of business incubators in four universities was in
accordance with Government’s agenda as written in UMKM business through
business incubators. The Ministrial Regulation authorized all legal bodies to
conduct businessplayers’ development through business incubators.
The four national tertiary schools which had pioneered in
incubator education system and succeeded in training the tenants were the Bogor
Institute of Technology, ITS Surabaya, and the Brawidjaja, University Malang.
Each tertiary school had their own specification in promoting competence of
UMKM.
According to Meliadi, through illumination to all provinces
the business incubator program was expected to develop. The successful effort
of universities to promote competence of small businessplayers might trigger
other institutions to set up incubator centers. According to its function, the
technology based development center was to help newly established UMKM. With
the touch of incubators, it was expected that the related regions would perform
economically well.
Meliadi disclosed that he was probing on collaboration
possibilities with members of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation [APEC] to
develop incubators for each member country for UKM players. The prioritized
collaboration was with Taiwan which had some incubator facilities.
He further disclosed that the Ministry of cooperatives
and UKM had made use of incubators managed by state and private universities in
Indonesia, but Muliadi felt that to collaborate with APEC member countries
would bring positive impact, i.e. the opportunity to develop entrepreneurship
among Indonesian overseas workers [TKI] in Taiwan scattered in many cities. A
program was as such was often conducted by the Ministry in countries where TKI
worked.
According to Meliadi, this was in line with APEC Small
Medium Enterprise Working Group 2014 which came up with important points to be
implemented for the benefit of businessplayers of the real sector in each
respective member country. One of them was readiness of UKM to face natural
disaster. APEC agreed to set up Business Continuity Plans [BCAP] to facilitate
UKM of the trading and investment sector. (SS)
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