THE PERCEPTION OF STUDENTS TOWARD THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CHARACTERISTICS TAUGHT IN PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUBJECT (A CASE STUDY OF PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY STUDENT BATCH 2011)

Abstract

Nowadays, it is homework for college institution in Indonesia to produce young generation to become the provider of job employment not to produce the burden of the country’s job employment. As the government also support the young generation to pursue the careers as entrepreneurs as stated in the Republic of Indonesia Regulation Number 41 year 2011 about entrepreneurship development and pioneering youth, and providing infrastructure and facilities youth, it is very important to monitor the entrepreneurship program to evaluate how success the entrepreneurship program being done so far. This study aims to analyze the perception of President University students toward the entrepreneurship subject in President University. The data were collected through interview, observation, and secondary data which consist of 90 students’ testimonials. The researcher is using Miles and Huberman (in Sugiono, 2007) analysis. The process in data analysis are data reduction, data display, and data conclusion. The researcher then analyzes the data by reducing the information to significant statements or quotes and combines the statements into several aspects of entrepreneurial characteristics. The results shows that the entrepreneurship characteristics that are perceived by the students as the part of the learning process are dedication, teamwork, opportunity analyzer, problem solver, confidence, result oriented, leadership, future oriented, detailed, and originality, meanwhile the challenges faced by the students while doing the entrepreneurship activity are knowledge problem, project period problem, time management problem, communication problem, and technical problem.