Yayasan Inspirasi Indonesia Membangun or known as The Foundation for Inspiration of Indonesia Development (YIIM) with its partners namely Pertamina Training and Consulting Company (PTC) as a subsidiary of Pertamina Company (Persero) conducted monitoring the progress of alumni of the social entrepreneurship training which held in the year of 2021. This program is part of the PTC company’s Social and Environmental Responsibility (TJSL) which is dedicated to the community.

The training was carried out online and offline and there were 3 types of training, namely barista training, frozen food cooking training, and hydroponic training. This entrepreneurship training was attended by 129 people consisting of 66 men and 63 women.

On average, the alumni of the training participants are at least 18 years old and a maximum age of 56 years old with various backgrounds, namely: 1# underprivileged communities; 2# correctional inmates; 3# physically disabled, 4# unemployed, 5# workers laid off due to Covid 19, 6# and inexperience (fresh graduates).

This data collection was obtained based on the results of monitoring the alumni of entrepreneurship training after attending training for the past year. Monitoring of alumni of entrepreneurship training is carried out with the aim of assisting alumni and monitoring the business development of alumni. Then this data collection also aims to evaluate the training that has been carried out.

The data obtained will be presented with a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) and presented in the form of infographics.

• The first element is the strengths or advantages obtained by alumni after participating in social entrepreneurship training. A total of 90 training alumni received hard skills such as cooking skills, coffee making, and hydroponic planting. There are 49 training alumni who have the spirit of not giving up easily to always run a business. With the training, 37 alumni of the training have dared to start a business such as opening a coffee shop, catering, and selling plant seeds. A total of 36 training alumni made this business an alternative job and became additional income for the training alumni and their families. Business development and innovation is also one of the strengths experienced by 23 entrepreneurship training alumni.

• The second element is the weaknesses or barriers felt by the training alumni when they wanted to start a business or when running a business. A total of 89 training alumni have low struggling power and still do not have the motivation to start a business. Then as many as 74 alumni of the training experienced weaknesses in soft skills such as business bookkeeping, time management, digital literacy, and marketing. There are 17 training alumni who find it difficult to start a business due to lack of working capital. With a lack of capital, some of the training alumni run a business in accordance with the existing capital thus their business is not so developed. There are 16 training alumni who want to expand their business but feel they are lacking in product innovation. Another weakness felt by the 10 training alumni in running a business was the lack of human resources. Due to limited manpower, other human resources are needed. However, the training alumni have difficulty finding these human resources. During running the business, there were 8 training alumni who felt that the business location was not strategic enough and caused the lack of customers.

• The third element is opportunities from external factors that support alumni while running a business. A total of 49 alumni of the training received a network or entrepreneurial community, one of which was the MSME community (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises). Then 85 training alumni who received assistance from YIIM and PTC through visits, joint discussions through zoom meetings, monitoring through groups and telephones, and business assistance. The development of digital technology is also an opportunity for 20 training alumni by utilizing social media and e-commerce such as Facebook, Tokopedia, Shopee Food, Gofood, and Grabfood to sell. There are 15 training alumni who also get opportunities through access to government assistance in the form of business permits and the procurement of bazaars for MSMEs.

• The fourth element is threats from the external factors that prevent alumni from starting a business or running a business. 58 training alumni felt that the pandemic and decreasing economy are a threat to their business. This makes the alumni’s business deserted and the price of raw materials soars. The purchasing power of the community has not yet recovered is also one of the threats to the efforts of the 13 training alumni. The reason is the lack of customers and the income of business implementers becomes little or loses. The last threat is business competition which is felt by the 10 training alumni. With this competition, alumni are always looking for ways to keep their business running well.

Based on the results of the data collection, it can be concluded that after monitoring many training alumni are starting to dare to open businesses and make these businesses the main income for alumni and their families. In addition, the alumni get a wider network of entrepreneurs to develop their businesses. However, over the past year there have been several weaknesses and threats as well as obstacles that must be corrected to strengthen the presence and role of micro and small business implementers as supporting elements of the Indonesian economy.

YIIM and PTC hopes that this program can develop a blueprint for forming new Micro and Small Business implementers thus in quantity and quality of micro and small business implementers will increase and be of high quality and adaptive to the times and technology. In addition, this infographic can be an effective input to strengthen the social entrepreneurship training roadmap so that the goals to be achieved and the benefits to be generated are clearer.

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