The Youth Studies Center (YouSure) Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (Fisipol) UGM won the 2020 International Council for Small Business (ICSB) Presidential Award.
YouSure earned this award due to various positive activities in supporting the development of small and medium enterprises through Soprema implementation.
“Thank you to all parties who have helped and supported Soprema’s activities to realize the development of MSMEs in Indonesia,” said Muhammad Najib Azca as Director of YouSure Fisipol UGM on Wednesday (19/8).
Soprema is a series of events for young sociopreneurs at the national level held by YouSure Fisipol UGM in collaboration with PT. Visitama Seventeen since 2016, to foster the spirit of sociopreneurship in Indonesia.
Hempri Suyatna, Managing Director of Soprema, also expressed his appreciation to ICSB and MarkPlus for the award.
“This award becomes an encouragement and support for Soprema to commit to inviting young sociopreneurs for taking parts in encouraging Indonesia’s economic revival, primarily caused by economic crisis during the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Hempri.
ICSB is a global non-profit organization that focuses on empowering the MSME sector. ICSB Indonesia has been active since 2015 under the Initiative of the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs with the Chairman of MarkPlus, Inc., Hermawan Kartajaya.
In every implementation of Galang UKM Indonesia (GUKMI), ICSB gives an award as an appreciation of the performance of institutions that have made extraordinary contributions to the development of small and medium enterprises.
Hempri explained, Soprema has been implemented since 2016. Its purpose is to facilitate problem-solving based on social empowerment through competition.
Soprema has held a competition event with applicants from 31 provinces in Indonesia in the last four years. Besides the competition, Soprema also organizes an expo and seminar, which is annually centered in Yogyakarta.
“With the motto Express Your Creative Passions, it is hoped that Soprema will be able to channel and foster the sociopreneurship spirit of youth in Indonesia to create prosperity for Indonesia,” he explained.
Until 2019, Soprema managed to accept 2,211 sociopreneur competition participants and helped develop 360 of them, one of which was Tenoon. Tenon is a social enterprise formed based on a love for the cultural heritage of woven fabrics in Indonesia.
Not only aiming to spread the love for woven fabrics through various innovations, Nicky Clara, the founder of Tenoon, makes Tenoon an inclusive creative platform by creating job opportunities for marginalized people and friends in the disabled community. “Although Tenoon has only been running for three years, this Tenoon product from South Sulawesi has managed to attract attention throughout Indonesia,” added Hempri.
Source: https://ugm.ac.id/id/berita/19918-yousure-fisipol-ugm-raih-penghargaan-icsb-presidential-award-2020
