Roy 'Citayam' Rejects Sandiaga Uno Scholarship, PERJAKBI Ready To Facilitate Young Entrepreneurs And Content Creators

PERJAKBI chairman Anthony Leong. (Photo: Doc. PERJAKBI)

JAKARTA – Recently, teenagers from the buffer zone of the Capital City who often hang out in the Dukuh Atas BNI City Station area or known as Citayam Fashion Week have received public attention. Several teenagers have gone viral due to the content of the interview, one of which is Roy.

Roy also shocked social media recently, this was because Roy refused an educational scholarship from Menparekraf Sandiaga S. Uno, arguing that he wanted to focus on being a content creator. Roy thinks it is more promising and makes a lot of money and can help his parents.

The chairman of the Indonesian Joint Office Service Entrepreneurs Association or the Indonesia Workspace & Digital Accelerator Association (PERJAKBI) Anthony Leong said that the Citayam Fashion Week phenomenon must be addressed as an event for young people's creativity.

Therefore, according to Anthony, it is necessary to provide a place for these young people to hone their creativity. He said PERJAKBI is willing to provide co-working space for them as a place to work and create content.

"PERJAKBI is ready to provide an office where they can do their creativity, not only that, with the ecosystem at PERJAKBI currently providing various services such as virtual offices, co-working spaces, mentoring, access to business capital," he said. in an official statement, Monday, July 18.

Anthony said that the ecosystem that PERJAKBI already has is ready to help these young people in achieving their dreams of becoming content creators and budding entrepreneurs.

To become a content creator, said Anthony, it takes a good workspace and is supported by a strategic location in the Sudirman area, PERJAKBI has that. He believes this can support these young talents to become entrepreneurs and content creators.

"We will provide a special program on how these young people are able to create new businesses with the existing opportunities, with them being well-known at this time the brand they advertise will certainly be attracted and buy it," said Anthony, who is also the CEO of Menara Digital.

The current era of disruption, said Anthony, changes the trends and interests of the public, especially young people, quickly. He considered this phenomenon to be a fact of how young people must be good at responding to these changes. For example, preferring to make money with a creative spirit through social media content and becoming an influencer.

"We hope that Citayam Fashion Week youths will be able to have a positive impact and create added value for the creative industry and the Indonesian economy in the future, PERJAKBI is ready to provide existing facilities to support this creation," he concluded.