Creating A Linkage Between Corporate, NGO, and Social Entrepreneur for A Better Society
08.17 Dini Khoirinnisa A 0 Comments Category :
Indonesia
like other developing countries still have a lot of social problems ranging
from education equity, economic inequality, health care accessibility, etc.
These problems turned out to be the paradigm of social entrepreneurship can be
solved by following the principles contained in entrepreneurship as an
innovative, professional, sustainable, and aims to seek profit. But profit in
social entrepreneurship is not always seen as money or other materials, but
everything that can provide benefits to make communities better than ever.
In practice,
a social entrepreneurship entity often foundered on various limitation such as
capital funding, the quality of human resources, and marketing. Although
certainly a social entrepreneur must be creative in finding solutions to their
problems, but in fact this limitation can be removed if it can be done synergy
between social entrepreneur and other entity primarily private companies
through the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Just as has
been done by DBS to support social entrepreneurship activity in many countries
especially in Indonesia. Not only provide capital but also assisting social
entrepreneur in order to improve the quality of business and human resources,
as well as help introduce social enterprise to the public so the market of
social enterprises will become wider. The involvement of the private sector in
social enterprises has become significant because of private experience in
business can be a good lessons learn for social entrepreneurs.
But, what
about the social aspect? Because exactly social enterprise would also talk
about the social impact besides sustainable business. In this article I would
also like to express the view that these synergies may be more complete if one
added the role of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in it as a capacity
builder of the social entrepreneur to maximize the social impact on society. I
believe on this because the social entrepreneurs will get more lesson learn in
social side based on the experiences of NGOs in contributing to the advancement
of society.
We can
mentioned an NGO in Indonesia namely Dompet Dhuafa, one of the largest NGOs in
Indonesia which also have a special program in pitching social entrepreneurs namely
Social Entrepreneur Academy, which appears to make the experience of Dompet
Dhuafa in community building as lesson learn that can be shared for other
social entrepreneurs in Indonesia.
In conclusion,
given the role of the private sector to social entrepreneurs, especially when
synergized with NGOs as an additional entity in the capacity builder, can maximizing
social entrepreneurship benefits for Indonesia which more empowered,
independent, and prosperous in the future.
