This document discusses a study on the entrepreneurship intentions of students at an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia. The study found that the most prominent entrepreneurial attitudes among students were curiosity and open-mindedness, while independence was the lowest. For behavioral control indicators, students were best at making decisions based on facts and having initiative, while thinking differently was lowest. In terms of subjective norms, determination was highest while thinking solutively was lowest. The study recommends improving students' independence, courage to think differently, and ability to identify opportunities.
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Introduction
The problem of unemployment in developing countries, like in Indonesia, is mainly due to the
limited number of jobs in the formal sector. If the number of workers and employment is not
balanced, then unemployment and economic inequality will become a problem which is
increasingly urgent to be immediately resolved (Febriyanto, 2015). Indonesian people tend to
choose to become employees (workers), both as private employees or government employees
for various reasons, including comfort, the existence of social security and health, fixed working
hours, the regular salary from the owner of the company or office. While being an entrepreneur is
the opposite, it is considered uncomfortable, salaries are not necessarily received every month,
uncertain working hours (Jamaluddin, 2010). This thinking, making a productive workforce in
Indonesia, competing to get a bachelor’s degree in order to find employment, not to open
employment. This resulted in a still limited number of young entrepreneurs in Indonesia. The low
number of entrepreneurs in an area illustrates the low competitiveness of the region (Febriyanto,
2015). Including the competitiveness of human resources. They tend to be reluctant to become
entrepreneurs. Even though being an entrepreneur will be of greater benefit, because it will
provide more employment opportunities for others (Jamaluddin, 2010), rather than scrambling to
find work. Thought about the profession as an entrepreneur does not just appear, but is generated
from the processing of a number of information obtained by individuals from the environment. The
results of the interpretation of the professional work field are what ultimately shape the perception
in the interpersonal communication process that occurs within each individual. (Wahyudi, 2018).
Intrapersonal communication or also known as intrapersonal communication is a communication
event that occurs in a person (Rahmania, 2019). Based on this, it can be said that the desire to
become an entrepreneur begins with the acquisition of information, followed by an assessment
of the benefits of pursuing the profession, so naturally it will generate interest. Therefore, it becomes
important to introduce entrepreneurship to students from an early age.
The number of entrepreneurs who meet the requirements in a country is determined by the
number of students who intend to become entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs (Linan & Chen, 2009;
Buana, Hidayat, Prayogi, & Vendy, 2017). Thus, entrepreneurship development has a significant
relationship with the country’s economic growth (Rekha, Ramesh, & JayaBharathi, 2015). So those
efforts are needed to create entrepreneurs in order to increase the country’s economic growth.
In epistemology, entrepreneurship is the value needed to start a business or a process of doing
something new and something different (Asriyal & Budi, 2012). When doing something new and
different, it will often be considered producing more risk. It must be recognized, that the
movement of growth in the entrepreneurial sector will produce risk probabilities in environmental
and social cultures (Nuringsih, Nuryasman, Prasodjo, & Amelinda, 2019). Therefore, measurement
of potential is needed, before starting entrepreneurship. Some important potentials in
entrepreneurial activities are physical capital, human capital and social capital (Subekti, Setianti,
Hafiar, Bakti, & Yusup, 2019). In an effort to develop potential in the form of human capital, several
national-level competitions have been carried out to build leadership and foster entrepreneurship
for the younger generation who participated in the competition (Artawan, Shintadewi, & Budiana,
2016). Self Esteem as one of the elements in human capital is considered insufficient as capital.
This refers to the results of research state that the contribution of Self Esteem which is owned by
the younger generation is lower than other aspects in building entrepreneurial attitudes
(Kadiyono, 2014). Therefore, the development of human capital needs to be supported by the
development of social capital and physical capital. The characteristics of entrepreneurship are
built with the environment, which includes parents, teachers, and the environment in the form of
human resources. Factors that build entrepreneurial spirit can also be obtained in the form of
nature, infrastructure to experiment with empirical learning, the opportunities available. Therefore,
it takes the ability to observe the environment, the ability to read the attitudes of acceptance
and rejection of others and carry out strategies (Amudha, 2017). This ability should be instilled and
passed on culturally to the people of Indonesia from an early age. For example, since teenagers
take education in junior high school.
In addition to the internalization factor, efforts are also needed to do the modeling. A study states
that: Internalization of local values influences the patterns of entrepreneurial behavior, it is
necessary that the figure of entrepreneurs has become a figure in the social life of the community,
which directly inspires and influences the behavior of others around him (Pratikto, 2015). Thus,
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Figure 1. Attitude toward entrepreneurship
Source: research data
Indicators of entrepreneurial attitudes that stand out from boarding students who become
respondents in the sequence are as follows: curiosity, the open mind, persistent, capable, and
independent. Based on these results, there is a need to improve the independent attitude, which
is the basic capital in preparing to become an entrepreneur. Independent is one of the attitudes
and personal character. Personal characteristics significantly influence the intention of the
students to become entrepreneur (Bade, Rao, & Reddy, 2017). Therefore, it is necessary to make
character-building efforts through various education. One of the important factors in character
building is Emotional Intelligence. Emotional intelligence covers individual differences in emotional
capabilities, both intrapersonal and interpersonal (Pathak, 2019). Every student has various
aspects of intelligence including aspects of intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence. Students'
intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence can be developed in the family and school
environment (Utami, 2012).
Education that can be prioritized is education which is related to character building. This is caused
because entrepreneurial knowledge and personal attitudes have a significant influence on
entrepreneurial intentions, personal attitudes are observed to have a greater influence on
entrepreneurial intentions (Tshikovhi & Shambare, 2015). This means that before providing the
knowledge and skills of entrepreneurship, students need to be educated first in order to form the
supporting character for entrepreneurship. Skills that can be given to students from an early age
include hard skills and soft skills. Soft skills dominate the list of essential competencies, include:
interpersonal and intrapersonal knowledge (Moon, 2014).
Figure 2. Behavioral Control
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Capital determination, ability to hold commitment, think solutively, can be trusted, orderly and
obedient, and team working, are values inherent in the subjective norms that should be possessed
by an entrepreneur. The prominent behavioral control indicators of the boarding school students
who were respondents, in the sequence are the determination; Team working; Commitment; Can
be trusted; Orderly and obedient, and think solutively. Based on these results, there is a need to
increase the courage and confidence to try to think in a way that is different from conventional
thinking in general, to be able to be more observant in targeting opportunities. The data in Figure
3 shows the existence of self-assessment, which gives the hope that most respondents already
have the basic capital to become entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship has been explored by
measuring the tendency of motivation and determination to influence one’s decision to become
an entrepreneur (Abbas & Khair, 2017). Therefore, the capital that is owned is just formed, and the
intensity needs to be increased again. There is a survey about the readiness of respondents in
preparing themselves to be entrepreneurs. Respondents were asked about their fate and the
determination to become entrepreneurs. They need to be convinced that entrepreneurs are
professional goals and many things must be prepared to start and run their businesses (Buana et
al., 2017). Therefore, the seriousness and determination to create and start their business in the
future also need to be prepared.
Attitudes and characters that need to be fostered in developing an entrepreneurial spirit,
including being oriented to the task and results, having the values of achievement motives,
oriented to profit, perseverance, and fortitude, determination, hard work, have a strong drive,
energetic, and have the initiative in carrying out its efforts (D. Hidayat & Saepudin, 2016). This
attitude and perception factor positively and significantly influences one’s tendency to become
entrepreneurs (Koe, Omar, & Sa’ari, 2015). The direction or orientation of attitude is also an
important factor, considering that the orientation of sustainability has a positive relationship with
the recognition of entrepreneurial opportunities and intentions related to sustainability (Sung &
Park, 2018). Furthermore, the motivation of online business entrepreneurs to have a significant
relationship tends to be moderately moderate with increased productivity (Yasundari, 2016).
Therefore, basic attitudes, future orientation, and entrepreneurial motives are related to
productivity and entrepreneurial sustainability.
Conclusion
The indicators of entrepreneurial attitudes that stand out from Islamic boarding school students
who become respondents in the sequence are curiosity; open mind; persistent; capable; and
independent. Based on these results, there is a need to improve the independent attitude which
is the basic capital in preparing to become an entrepreneur. The prominent behavioral control
indicators of boarding school students who become respondents in sequence are: make
decisions based on facts and reality; initiative; have seriousness; dare to face challenges and risks;
dare to express thought; and think differently. Based on these results, there is a need to increase
the courage and confidence to try to think in a way that is different from conventional thinking in
general, to be able to be more observant in targeting opportunities. The prominent behavioral
control indicators of Islamic boarding school students who were respondents in the sequence
were: determination; team working; commitment; can be trusted; orderly and obedient, and think
solutively. Based on these results, there is a need to increase the courage and confidence to try
to think in a way that is different from conventional thinking in general, to be able to be more
observant in targeting opportunities.
Limitation And Further Research
The limitation of this study is the limited selection of research locations. This is because this research
is the initial research in a series of studies examining entrepreneurial intentions among students in
West Java. Therefore, it is hoped that in further research, complete data from all respondents can
be presented.
Acknowledgement
We would like to thank the school management who helped provide direction and opportunity
for the research team to conduct this research. We also thank the students who had the pleasure
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