Rocket Day 2025 Graduation & Awarding Ceremony, Produce 37 Best Brands Ready For IPO And Global Competitiveness

JAKARTA - The Rocket You(th)preneurs program, From Mustahik to Muzakki, has officially closed its series of incubation and annual acceleration through the holding of the Rocket Day 2025 Graduation & Awarding Ceremony, a peak momentum that marks the graduation of young entrepreneurs after undergoing a full one-year business development process with the Sandination Academy and the Indonesian Setara Foundation.

Of the total 250 brands that take part in the incubation process, 37 of the best brands selected have successfully completed the entire Rocket: Ignition, Lift-Off, Boost, and passed this prestigious event. This year the program recorded significant achievements, including a business connect value of IDR 4.17 billion, which shows the strong business attraction of the participants in the eyes of partners and investors.

Social Impact: Giving Birth To Young Entrepreneurs Who Are Able To Create Jobs And Give Real Impacts

In addition to printing superior entrepreneurs, the Rocket You(th)preneurs program also focuses on the social impacts that founders have on their environment.

During one year of the program, the participants have created various positive initiatives, including:

Opening new jobs for hundreds of young workers in various regions.

Developing businesses engaged in the creative economy, education, environment, digital, health, and community-based MSME sectors.

Encouraging the transformation of small businesses into formal, measurable, and sustainable businesses, thereby improving the welfare of the families of business actors.

Empowering young people from schools, campuses, women's chapter villages, local communities, and grassroots MSME players to advance to class through collaborative work carried out by Rocket participants.

Manufacturing products and services that have an impact on society, such as solution-based innovation, digitization of MSMEs, environmental sustainability, to improving the quality of life of the community through technology and the creative economy.

This program is proof that entrepreneurship is not only about profit, but also about providing positive values and changes for Indonesia.

Preparing Young Founders Towards IPO

One of the biggest highlights of this year is the focus of the program to produce a generation of young Indonesian entrepreneurs who are ready for an IPO (Initial Public Offering). Through curriculum, mentoring, business coaching, to financial literacy and governance approaches, participants are encouraged to build businesses that are not only growing, but also able to meet public company standards.

Sandiaga S. Uno, Founder of the Indonesian Setara Foundation and Sandination Academy, emphasized that Rocket You(th)preneurs is now positioned as a strategic route for the nursery of young Indonesian issuers.

We want Indonesia to have more and more young entrepreneurs ready to enter the global market, even entering the Indonesia Stock Exchange. This year, the 37 best brands born are not only ready to scale-up, but we are also preparing to become the founding generation of companies that are IPO-ready. This is our real contribution to the nation's economy in the future.

To strengthen the ecosystem, the Sandination Academy and the Indonesia Setara Foundation collaborate closely with the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) and TICMI. This collaboration includes:

IPO Readiness Briefing

- Capital market education- Business assistance towards an initial pre-IPO-access phase to investment institutions & strategic partners- Strengthening governance & business eligibility

This collaboration is a concrete step in producing a row of young founders who are ready to move into the corporate world and become part of the new generation of Indonesian issuers.

Winners Get Business Capital And Departure To China

As a form of appreciation, the best winners from each Rocket level get prizes in the form of:

Business capital to accelerate business growth

The opportunity to go to China through the STRON program, a global exposure initiative to prepare them in:

- participating in international conferences, doing global pitching, and expanding international business networks (global networking).

This opportunity is an important stepping stone for founders to be able to see global market opportunities, strengthen innovation, and prepare themselves for the global-ready and IPO-ready phases.

Cross-Sectoral Collaboration & The Role Of Key Persons

The Rocket Day 2025 event also presents national figures, including:

- Jeffery Hendrik, Director of Indonesia Stock Exchange Development- Maman Abdurrahman, Minister of MSMEs- Ferry Juliantono, Minister of Cooperatives

Program ini dipimpin dua tokoh utama:

- Erna Usman, Executive Director of the Indonesian Setara Foundation- Reni Fitriani, Founder & Program Director of Sandination Academy

Both expressed their commitment to building an entrepreneurial ecosystem that produces strong young business actors mentally, financially, and structurally, so that they are able to compete not only in the Indonesian market, but also in the global market.

Towards Indonesia Gold 2045

With the end of Rocket Day 2025, this young generation of entrepreneurs is now entering a new chapter to bring real changes, both economically and socially. They are expected to be the locomotive for the achievement of Indonesia Gold 2045 through sustainable, innovative and impact entrepreneurship.