Creating Entrepreneurs through Vocational High School to Reduce Unemployment in Indonesia

Abstract

In many nations, including Indonesia, unemployment is one of the key problems. the percentage rate ofunemployment in Indonesia is still relatively high compared to other countries, although it has droppedevery year. Vocational High School (VHS) graduates dominate the largest number of unemployedindividuals in Indonesia. Creative entrepreneurs are one option since they can build their own work. Butthe entrepreneurial interest of VHS students in Indonesia is still low. The objective of this research is todevelop strategies for creating entrepreneurship in conjunction with the skills needed to becomeentrepreneurs. Primary data was gathered with eleven headmasters of VHS in Indonesia through focusgroup discussion (FGD) and secondary data collected from literature research. The data analysis wasprocessed through stakeholder analysis and the house model to create an effective strategy and decision.The study results indicate that synergistic cooperation from a quadruple helix consisting of universities,entrepreneurial societies, government, and industry is required in order to achieve 'one student, onebusiness' mission as the output. Furthermore, organizing talent management to provide the mindset asCEO for vocational students and training school principals is a way out of this issue in order to create linksand match VHS student interests and providing the growth of CEO mindset training for the VHS principals.Therefore, VHS Students can establish their own company and become entrepreneurs according to theirinterests and ambitions, both before and after graduating from VHS.