Notes on Training on Entreprenuership and Banking Education for Indonesian Trainees in Japan.

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1. INTRODUCTION

 

 

A long trip of the so called ‘Tokyo Commitment’—the joint commitment launched at November 5-6 in Tokyo by some Indonesian institutions and its overseas counterparts: Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo (KBRI Tokyo), Indonesian Consulate General in Osaka (KJRI Osaka), Bank of Indonesia, Tokyo Representative (BI Tokyo), Bank of Negara Indonesia in Tokyo (BNI Tokyo), IMM Japan and other similar agencies, Ministry of Labor and Transmigration (Depnakertrans, Ditjen Pembinaan, Pelatihan dan Produktivitas), State Ministry of  Cooperation and Small Medium Enterprises (Kementrian Koperasi dan UKM, Deputi Bidang Pengembangan SDM), Ministry of Industry (Departemen Perindustrian, Ditjen IKM), Ministry of Trade (Departemen Perdagangan, Ditjen Perdagangan Dalam Negeri), and Working Group for Technology Transfer (WGTT)—has been entering the transition path after its considerable success to promote the development of entrepreneurs through the entrepreneurship training program in Japan during 2008.

 

Entrepreneurship and Banking Training (PWEP = Pelatihan Wirausaha dan Edukasi Perbankan) since January 2008 in all over Japan have been conducting by several concerned parties, including the principals: Indonesian Embassy in Japan (KBRI Tokyo), Indonesian Consulate General in Osaka (KJRI Osaka), Bank of Indonesia, Tokyo Representative Office (BI Tokyo), Indonesian Students Association in Japan (PPI Jepang) and Working Group for Technology Transfer (WGTT). These activities are supported by, among others, Association for International Manpower Development of Medium and Small Enterprises) Japan (IMM Japan), BNI Tokyo, Garuda Indonesia, Pertamina, and other concerned parties which want to increase their organization and/or corporate value in these outstanding events as well as want to maintain the emotional relationship with the development of SME’s in Indonesia. PWEP is basically considered as part of Tokyo Commitment implementation in Japan.

These PWEP activities were:

1.      PWEP Gifu

Sunday, January 6, 2008, Juroku Plaza, Gifu, Japan (attended by around 120 participants and special guests).

2.      PWEPKanazawa

Sunday, February 10,  2008, Josei senta, Kanazawa, Japan (attended by around 100 participants and special guests).

3.      PWEP Tokyo (Big Event)

Sunday, March 23, 2008, Sekolah Republik Indonesia Tokyo (SRIT), Japan (attended by around 200 participants and special guests).

4.      PWEP SAGA

Sunday, May 18, 2008, I Square Building, Saga Japan (attended by around 150 participants and special guests).

5.      PWEP NAGOYA

Sunday, June 1, 2008, CALE Room, ECIS Building, Nagoya University, Japan, (attended by around 160 participants and special guests);

6.      PWEP KOBE

Sunday, June 22, 2008, Sanbo Hall, Kobe, Japan (attended by around 200 participants and special guests).

7.      PWEP VUTEQ (Toyota-shi)

Sunday, July 13, 2008, Vuteq Corporation, Toyota-shi, Japan (attended by around 200 participants and special guests).

8.      PWEP Shizuoka (Shizuoka shi)

Sunday, September 21, 2008, Indonesian Communities Organisation (KeMIS), Shizuoka Ken, Japan (attended by 84 participants and special guests).

9.      PWEP Big Event Kansai (Kobe shi)

Sunday, October 26, 2008, Nishinomiya Kuyakusho, Kobe, Japan (attended by 150 participants and special guests).

 

 

10.      PWEP Kasugai (Kasugai shi)

Sunday, February 1, 2009, Kokusai Koryuu Center, Shimin Katsudou Center, Kasugai, Japan (attended by 60 participants and special guests).

 

 

These activities have been published in several national media and official websites:

1. PWEP Gifu dan PWEP Tokyo in PPI Jepang official website.

http://www.ppi-jepang.org/article.php?id=50 January 9, 2008

http://www.ppi-jepang.org/article.php?id=56  March 23, 2008

2. PWEP Saga in Suara Merdeka CyberNews, May 19, 2008

http://www.suaramerdeka.com/beta1/index.php?fuseaction=news.detailNews&id_news=6153

in Saga News (Saga shinbun), May 19, 2008

http://www.saga-s.co.jp/view.php?pageId=1036&blockId=904865&newsMode=article

3. PWEP Nagoya

in Kompas.com, June 3, 2008

http://www.kompas.com/read/xml/2008/06/03/11405733/trainee.indonesia.di.jepang.capai.5.000.orang.per.tahun

4. PWEP Kansai (Kobe)

in  Ministry of Foreign Affairs official website: www.deplu.go.id

in Online Magazine ‘Marsinah’ based in Tokyo

6. PWEP Vuteq (Toyota-shi)

in Gatra.com http://www.gatra.com/artikel.php?pil=23&id=116532

in Bisnis Indonesia online http://web.bisnis.com/umum/sosial/1id68278.html

7. PWEP Big Event Kansai (Kobe)

in Official website of MOFA-Indonesia http://www.deplu.go.id/?hotnews_id=3786

 

WGTT and Indonesian Students Association in Japan have been organizing herself as an active partner of this commitment and have been carrying out some activities pertaining to the online survey of trainees in Japan, developing a web based forum for communication among trainees, and holding PWEP. The numbers of participants of PWEP until the last PWEP Vuteq are around 1,500 people, not including the local arranger, guests, and other special invited officials.

 

The subjects of the PWEP delivered to participants are included, but not limited to: Financial planning, business management, business feasibility study, small and medium business case studies, banking credit and procedures, accounting for small and medium enterprises, and other related subjects such as: regulation for trainees, judicial assistant from KBRI Tokyo/KJRI Osaka, and even international money remittance. In this special big event, we would like to introduce other main features: success stories from Indonesian enterprenuer, banking support for SME’s development, and directing program for kenshusei who want to be an entrepreneurs.

 

These PWEP’s are basically a response to the enhancement of the fruit from “Technical Intern Training Program” instituted by the Government of Japan, in which many young Indonesian trainees selected and sent to Japan by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia since 1993, and its number has reached 75,000 people as of 2006. As for per year basis, the number of trainees sent to Japan is around 5,200 people.

It is well known that the trainees who are selected and trained for four months by the Indonesian Government have a high reputation as being well-disciplined, enthusiastic, and energetic youths. The organizing institution of this program such as: IMM (Association for International Manpower Development of Medium and Small Enterprises) Japan, JITCO, among others, have been successfully managed these program since 15 years ago and continue to promote more advanced and more developed training program such as by extending the duration of the program, expanding the industrial base for training, and so on.

 

 2. OBJECTIVES

 

·         To introduce the importance of entrepreneurship and its related strategies, and to identify the preference of trainees toward these activities;

·         To provide a media for counseling among trainees and interested agencies, especially pertaining to their activities during their living in Japan;

·         To support the establishment of groups of trainees who has a strong motivation in initiating business in Indonesia and provide them with any necessary information and supports;

·         To support the better development of small and medium enterprises in Indonesia.

  

3. REMARKS

 

There is no doubt that every Indonesians living in other country still have an emotional attachment to their homeland, in which by utilizing this program, we hope that there is a small contribution to the development of small and medium business enterprises in Indonesia. The spirit behind this effort is to strengthen our relationships among Indonesians in Japan and simultaneously to realize a support for the development of entrepreneurship in Indonesia through trainee program in Japan.

 

11.      PWEP Toyama (Toyama shi)

Saturday, March 7, 2009, CIC Building, Toyama-shi Kokusai Koryu kan, Toyama, Japan (attended by 61 participants and special guests).