Indonesia with more than 237 million people in February 2012, it faces 6.32 per cent unemployment rate and 11.6 per cent poverty rate (BPS, 2012). The higher portion of unemployed is youth. Entrepreneurship has been selected as a strategic way to reduce unemployment, poverty reduction and inequality in Indonesia. President of Indonesia launched the national program on entrepreneurship almost a decade ago (see President Instruction No. 04/1995). Since then, there are about 17 ministries promotes entrepreneurship in various approaches, including trainings, access to finance, and/or exhibition, which can be selected autonomously by each ministry. However, until now, there number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia has not been reaching 2 per cent of the population. The results of each ministry program vary, in which the multi stakeholder consultation found that there is lack of join action to promote entrepreneurship, means that the current entrepreneurship program is an independent program, and it is also mainly focuses on economic aspect.

Beside the employment challenge, Indonesia also faces environmental challenge. The country is the third largest contributor of CO2 due to deforestation and palm oil production. Until 2010, Ministry of Energy and Mineral reports that more than 50 per cent of the energy used in Indonesia are sourced from oil mining and coal, which are non renewable. This energy is used for industry, transport and household with 44 per cent, 36 per cent and 11 per cent of energy consumption respectively (Ministry of Energy and Mineral, 2011). Indeed, beside the energy used, the industry, transports and households are the major source of pollution in Indonesia (Ministry of Environment, 2009). At the G-20 meeting at Pittsburgh, the President of Indonesia commits to reduce CO2 by 26 per cent with own initiative and up to 41 per cent with international supports by 2020.

The ILO responded to the will and provided technical assistance through the Green Jobs Project in Asia from 2010 – 2012. Tourism subsector has been selected as the pilot sector. Through the assistance on green business (green homestay) and competency standards (eco-tour guide), the project found that a green entrepreneurship program, a program can response to social, economics as well as environment concerns concurrently, is needed. Such program may need to cover both technical and managerial aspects and include other sectors along value chain.

The Indonesia Green Entrepreneurship Program will assist the national Government in reducing unemployment and reducing GHG by creating new green entrepreneurs in various sectors of the economy in Indonesia.

Purpose and objectives

The Indonesian Green Entrepreneurship Program preliminary stage has a number of activities scheduled including training of trainers on the newly developed Start Your Green Business (adopting SIYB, GYB and GBO), will be delivered by SIYB master trainers in Surabaya.

The training aims to:

• prepare new trainers of entrepreneurs for green businesses in five economic sectors that can follow up the activities and provide coaching.
• promote the SYGB module, which systematically provide skills for entrepreneurship facilitators to adopt participatory process and systematic learning methods.
• facilitate networking and close collaboration among entrepreneurship facilitators at national, province and district levels, across several line Ministries (Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprise, Ministry of Youth and Sport, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Ministry of National Education, Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration and the Bank of Indonesia), and between private and public facilitators

Participants

This training will be participated by 20 participants from Surabaya and the surrounding area. Invited organizations shall take into account the need for gender balance in the selection of the participants to ensure at least 40 per cent female participation rate.