Program Implementation for Creating New Entrepreneurs: Case Study Between 2018 and 2022 in Tasikmalaya City

Abstract

This research aims to explore and investigate the implementation process of creating new entrepreneurs in Tasikmalaya City from 2018 to 2022 with a target of 5000 participants. The main actors involved in this implementation process are the Department of Education; Labor offices; Department of Youth, Sports, Culture and Tourism; Agriculture and Livestock Food Security Service; Department of Cooperatives, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Industry and Trade as well as a regional bank owned by the Tasikmalaya City government, namely Al Madina Sharia People's Credit Bank. The supporting actors are facilitators, skills, and entrepreneurship education institutions and business organizations. The method used is a qualitative descriptive method. The data collection technique is in-depth face-to-face and written interviews via Google Forms, observation, and documentation. In contrast, the data analysis technique is condensation, display, and verification. The results of the research show that in the implementation process, it was found that there needed to be more in the budget for implementing the education, training, and entrepreneurship apprenticeship process. There is no coordination and cooperation between the relevant agencies involved. Lack of commitment from implementing leaders in paying facilitators, small interest-free financing funds offered to alumni of the new entrepreneur creation program, which only ranges from 1 million to 5 million rupiahs. There needs to be more educational hours, apprenticeship training is only 4 days, and there is no competency test after completing the new entrepreneur creation program. Social, cultural, and economic conditions that do not support implementation.