A New Breed of Business People

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Last October, the Industry Ministry announced plans to allocate Rp171 billion to create a new breed of entrepreneurs. The objective is to strengthen Indonesia's competitiveness as ASEAN gets set to become an economic community by 2015. Experience has shown, time and again, that creating successful entrepreneurs is no easy task. Often, they fail midway, for lack of capacity, the proper mindset and most of all, a businesss sense. To overcome this handicap, groups of trainers have been deployed to teach the basics of commerce, using innovative methods. These trainers went around the country to demonstrate the art of doing business, specifically to manage cash flow and how to access markets. Tempo English reports from South Sulawesi and East Kalimantan provinces.

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Business to Boast from the Coast

The people from the coastal area of South Sulawesi became entrepreneurs to preserve the environment. They got their knowledge from the Coastal Field School.

Haruna hurriedly arranged the gunny sacks of cow dung in the compost house in Bonto Manai, a village on the coast of South Sulawesi. A dank odor filled the room, but he did not care. His T-shirt and hair were wet through. The content of gunny sacks was set to be

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