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it she had. “It’s enough to buy daily earnings as I dont get to play in any he started to sell Mie Babon in Tham-
needs.” Gabriela said. She knew that gigs,” said Andy. rin 10. “I just started this new Mie Ba-
she was facing a hard time, but she He realized that what currently bon business here in Thamrin 10 since
persists. She plans on keep selling happens in Indonesia also happens 2019. I want to make it popular and
bubur sumsum through social me- in other countries, so he wont give up open some branches within the coun-
dia and next to expand it to online ojek in any way. That’s what encourages try,” said this man, who has also joined
platform. him to sell siomay and sambal cumi Japreneur.
Andy, a 37 year old man also does through social media platforms. He He chose to be an entrepreneur
the same thing. He started to sell cu- believes that to sell products online, since he was 29. Before starting his
linary products through social media he doesn’t need to have a lot of funds. role as an entrepreneur, he worked in
platforms. Before running his Dapur He doesn’t need to rent a store. “I sell a private company. He left the job to
Owen business, he worked as gui- all of the products online. In the begin- focus on starting his culinary business
tarist and guitar teacher. Since the ning, I tried to sell them to my friends. and joined Jakpreneur, where he got
emerge of COVID-19, his music activi- When they told me it’s tasty, I got con- valuable lessons on how to be an en-
ties stopped: he could not teach, too, fident and started to sell them online trepreneur. He admit that it was hard
as the music school where he’s teach- (through social media),” he explained. for him to start the business at first,
ing at was closed. “I still play music, Fahmi, a 33 year old man has been given the fact that he didn’t have much
though. But since this corona virus ap- running his business since 2017. At money to run it. But as his intention
peared I have to sell siomay (Indone- first, he was selling sate taichan (spicy persisted, he dared to start. “As I’m
sian dumpling) and sambel cumi (In- chicken skewers) and managed to willing to it, I work hard to get the cap-
donesian chili sauce with squid) to get have five branches in Jakarta. In 2019, ital,” he said.

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“I was following my fellow UMKM (Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprises) owners to join
Jakpreneur. I got 50% from the trainings and
I was given a location to run my business. It
helps small enterprises like mine.”

Fahmi,
a member of Jakpreneur.

One of the e-com-
merce applications
to sell products
online.
Credits:
Dharma W.