The Background Story

Entrepreneurs have a big role in supporting economic growth, They provide jobs, payments of taxes and create new products or services that decrease the number of unoccupied, reduce the poverty and minimize the social gaps.

As one of the attempts to increase the number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia, the government encouraged Universities and Colleges to hold entrepreneurship education or program. Even nowadays entrepreneurship has been taught in the elementary level.

By observing the growth of students' keen interest in entrepreneurship especially for FEB UKSW students. It turns out that the students have great interest to become an entrepreneur.

Surveys conducted in entrepreneur classes show more than 70 percent of students are inclined to be an entrepreneur.

The problem is that many of the students did not know how to seek the business opportunity and create their business plan also how to start a business.

On the other hand, students who are running their businesses also struggle in scaling up their business as they manage their selling, how to keep up with the customers, how to be effective and efficient in doing the business process, etc.

These young entrepreneurs need the facilities to have the access to business consultation, workshops, mentoring, and partners to develop their business.

Based on the phenomenon, Entrepreneurship program, Management department of FEB UKSW initiate to create a community of young entrepreneur FEB UKSW called iYES FEB UKSW (Inspire Young Entrepreneur Society) to accommodate FEB UKSW young entrepreneurs, and to facilitate the students to get access of the resources to develop their business.