Anies Heritage Jakpreneur Program Still Continues In The Heru Budi Era, Now There Are 18 Thousand New Entrepreneurs

Illustration of job seekers visiting the Job Exchange Exhibition at GBK Stadium, Jakarta, December 2019. (ANTARA-Wahyu P A)

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government is still running Jakpreneur's entrepreneurship development program. This program, formerly known as OK OCE, is Anies Baswedan's legacy while serving as Governor of DKI Jakarta.

"In anticipating a decrease in people's purchasing power, efforts have been made to improve the economy through expanding job opportunities and entrepreneurship," said Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono in his statement, Wednesday, March 29.

In the period 17 October 2022 to 24 March 2023, the DKI Jakarta Industry, Trade, Cooperatives, Small and Medium Enterprises (PPUKM) have received 18,183 new participants who registered for Jakarta Entrepreneur.

Then, the DKI PPUKM Service held Jakarta Entrepreneur training for 5,017 participants, 3,792 permits were given to Jakarta Entrepreneur participants, and marketed 376 Jakarta Entrepreneur fostered products to various exhibitions both nationally and internationally.

There are seven stages for MSMEs to take part in the Jakpreneur program. These stages start from registration, training, mentoring, licensing, marketing, financial reporting, and capital.

Heru said this program is one of the efforts to boost Jakarta's economic growth. Another program is job training through the DKI Jakarta Manpower, Transmigration and Energy Office.

Based on the latest data collection, 55 classes (regular and mobile training units) have been carried out, job skills training at 7 Job Training Centers and the Thousand Islands Manpower, Transmigration and Energy Sub-Department, as well as job exchanges in 5 urban areas.

"As a result, 77.03 percent (5,871 out of 7,626 people) of the training participants were accepted in the labor market," said Heru.

Furthermore, efforts to encourage more new entrepreneurs in Jakarta, according to Heru, are also accompanied by an Increase in the Use of Domestic Products (P3DN).

Various efforts have been made by the DKI Jakarta P3DN Team to encourage the use of domestic products, including actively participating in the National Business Matching phase I until stage IV, encouraging OPD to spend domestic component-level certified products (TDKN) through e-catalog and e-order, and others.

"Based on the BPKP P3DN Supervision System, the realization of the use of domestic products in DKI Jakarta in 2022 is IDR 20.454 trillion. We will increase this in the following years," explained Heru.

The various efforts above are also an implementation of the commitment to reduce extreme poverty in Jakarta with a target of 0 percent by 2024. Poverty interventions are carried out starting from updating the data on the poor to providing social assistance.

"To achieve the 0 percent target is not easy, because there are various challenges, including the mobility of migrant residents to Jakarta and the ease of moving residents from outside the DKI Jakarta ID card to DKI Jakarta," said Heri.

"However, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government will continue to ensure that recipients of the Integrated Poverty Intervention Program remain on target," he continued.