Abstract:
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a bad impact on some startups in Indonesia.
So a bunch of start-ups are looking for strategies to survive the Covid-19 pandemic
so that the company can keep going as it should. One of the strategies implemented
by startups to survive during and after the Covid-19 pandemic is to open up an
Unpaid Internship program. The aim of this study is to explore the application of
the Unpaid Internship program to stratup survival during and post of Pandemic Era.
The study uses a qualitative approach with multi-case studies using semi-structured
interviews. The samples used in this study consisted of four experts in the Startup
company. The sampling technique used in the study is purposive sampling, that is,
based on certain criteria to provide the information required by the researchers. The
results of this research show that the application of the Unpaid Internship program
in Startup companies can help them to survive during the Covid-19 pandemic, in
terms of reduction of expenditure, Resource and Employees management, as well
as practical innovations in the field of digitization that startups gained during the
implementation of the unpaid internship programme
