Women Empowerment in Ponorogo Regency with Si Kribo (Kripik Bothe)
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November-December 2019 ISSN: 0193-4120 Page No. 5309 - 5316 Women Empowerment in Ponorogo Regency with Si Kribo (Kripik Bothe) *Umi Farida, Titi Rapini, Arif Hartono Universitas Muhammadiyah Ponorogo, Indonesia *[email protected] Article Info Abstract Volume 81 Purpose of the study: This study aims to comprehensively understand the Page Number: 5309 - 5316 entrepreneurial development of women who do not work in Ponorogo in order to Publication Issue: improve family life standards. As well as the necessary guidance. The scope of research November-December 2019 is in Ponorogo Regency, where the Small and Medium Enterprises are women. The virtue of this research is to open jobs in the form of Kripik Bothe's home industry given the large number of raw materials that have not been utilized optimally Methodology: The necessary data is primary data and secondary data. This study uses a quantitative approach that is supported by qualitative data collected by interviewing the object under study Article History Article Received: 5 March 2019 Main Findings: The results showed that the barriers of MSME (Micro Small Medium Revised: 18 May 2019 Enterpise) are the limited experience and processing ability so Kripik Bothe (Bothe Accepted: 24 September 2019 Chips) were less attractive to the market Publication: 25 December 2019 Keywords: Jobs, MSME, Entrepreneurship I. INTRODUCTION economic empowerment movement so that the welfare of their families can increase. In Indonesia’s economic development, Small and Medium Enterprises are always described as Following up on the collectibility of women's data sectors that have an important and strategic role in carried out by the Economic Council of Regional the development of the national economy, because Leaders ’AisyiyahPonorogo which shows many they play a role in economic growth and rural women who do not have jobs, because of employment also improve the welfare of the their low educational background and low skills. community and play a role in industry and Besides that, there are many agricultural products development results. Small and Medium in the Ponorogo area that have not been utilized Enterprises are one of the main pillars in optimally by the community, namely Bothe, and developing an economic system. the number of unemployed women in the Related to the existence of small and medium countryside needs to creat new jobs, that is enterprises, not only businesses that generate large processing raw materials that are less useful so profits, but SMEs have a lot to contribute to the that they have value-added, namely making bothe Indonesian economy, so women need to be chips (Kripik Bothe). empowered in small and medium enterprises and Empowerment is not only includes strengthening growed entrepreneurial spirit up in order to be individual members of the community, but also its able to fight for their rights and interests as an Published by: The Mattingley Publishing Co., Inc. 5309 November-December 2019 ISSN: 0193-4120 Page No. 5309 - 5316 institutions. Instill modern cultural values, such as between the goals of the individual and hard work, independence, self-reliance, efficiency, organizational (Toygar & Ergün, 2012). open mind, responsible attitude (Ratnawati, 2011). According to Achmad and Hamzani (2015), the Improving family living standards through group three main factors that greatly affect the approaches and business diversification. Efforts to Measurement of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) improve the welfare and empowerment of rural is the efficiency of use of available resources, the poor women through entrepreneurship can quantity and quality of resouces used and the guarantee the economic actors to get their right, availability of existing technology. Productivity is especially welfare and a decent standard of living the ability to obtain the maximum benefit fr the (Ratnawati, 2011). facilities and infrastructure available to produce the maximum output (Siagian, 2001). Thus, this It is expected that by opening jobs, namely impowerment is needed to raise the quality of opening the Bothe Industrial house means that resource so the productivity would be gained a they become entrepreneurs because they have to better profit. hire themselves in addition to increasing family income while carrying out their household roles.. The women empowernment is aimed to decrease the amount of unemployment graduate. Today, II. LITERATURE AND HYPOTHESIS there are massive amount of employment wose DEVELOPMENT come from graduate background. This women Women Empowerment empowerment is expected to increase the ability Women's empowerment is the ability to make of women themself to explore what best in them. decisions and influence the result that useful for It is showed by the entrepreneur character of the themselves and their families (Malhotra, 2002). women that help them to lead a business i.e in Longwe (1991) stated that there are five elements food industry such as Bothe Chips. The study that need to be considered in women's from Vasiliadis and Poulios (2007) showed that empowerment processes, namely: welfare, access, entrepreneurship education creates a positive critical awareness, participation, equality of image for the entrepreneurs and giving the control. contribution that entrepreneurship can be an alternative option of profession to the graduates. The success of organization is considered to be Other source shows that since the entrepreneurial possible by training,developing human resources mindset activities began, the careers of the key and preparing this resource for the future in persons from an undergraduate program were addition to the changes in structure, process and foster the development of useful skills and technology. Keeping up with the rapidly changing personality traits such as pro-active, confident, working life is only possible by managing human creative, engagement, honesty, and social resources, which is the most valuable treasure of responsibilities (Wongpreedee, Kiratisin, & enterprises, in the best manner and to create Virutamasen, 2015). With that development, professional autonomous, performance evaluation, women expected to be more autonomous, so their positive relationships between professionals, life will be better. Entrepreneurial education is the sufficient personnel and happy, satisfied process of providing individuals with the ability to workforce in the working environment. To recognise commercial opportunities and the achieve this, available possibilities should be insight, self-esteem, knowledge and skills to act developed and the opportunity for development on them. It includes instruction in opportunity should be provided by establishing coordination recognition, commercialising a concept, Published by: The Mattingley Publishing Co., Inc. 5310 November-December 2019 ISSN: 0193-4120 Page No. 5309 - 5316 marshalling resources in the face of risk, and Meanwhile, according to Wiryanto (2012), in initiating a business venture (Jones & English, order to encourage the growth of SMEs, the 2004). relevant local governments need to make efforts to empower SMEs through the development of The Definition of Small and Medium Enterprises human resources of SMEs, increasing access of Small and medium Enterprises has two small SMEs to the expansion of credit distribution, business definitions known in Indonesia increasing productivity and optimizing (Sulistyastuti, 2004): coordination. 1. The definition of small business according From the research related to Small and Medium to UU No. 9 of 1995 concerning Small Business is Enterprises, namely: Research on "The Role of the economic activity of the people who have a Small and Medium Enterprises in Strengthening maximum annual Sales proceeds of the Economy in Ponorogo" by Rapini et al. Rp.1,000,000,000 (1 billion) and have net assets, (2016), it is known that: 1) Motivation to run the not including land and buildings, at most cake/food industry is to help the family economy Rp.200,000,000.00, Owned by Indonesian but now can be used to make a living, besides that, citizens, stand-alone and in the form of individuals the neighbors who succeed in the cake / food business, the business have not a legal entities. industry go along. 2) The role of the cake/food 2. Definition according to the Badan Pusat industry helps small communities to earn income, Statistik (BPS) categories, small businesses are gain knowledge, it means that helps the identical with small industries and household government to open jobs. 3) Barriers are generally industries. BPS classifies industries based on the in recording/ administration.Other research is the number of workers, i.e: Beginner lecturer’s research on "Role of Women in Running a Family Business in Ponorogo", (Titi - Household industry with 1-4 workers Rapini, UmiFarida, 2014) obtained results that: 1) - Small industry with 5-15 workers Employees involved in the Chicken Satay Industry are mostly family members. 2) While - Medium industry with 20-99 workers their motivation to be involved in the chicken - Large industry with 100 or more workers. satay (sate ayam) business is in order to help the family economy. Their role in the production SMEs are a strategic potency in accelerating process are in all stages of the process of making regional development. Because MSMEs have an chicken satay (sate ayam). In terms of the important position not only in absorbing labor and administration of receipts and expenditures, many the welfare of the people in the region, in many do not registered.