Abstract
Independent entrepreneurs are urgently needed in developing countries such as Indonesia considering there are many educated unemployed people and limited employment, especially in formal sector, and increasing number of job seekers every year. The common phenomenon in Papua is business opportunities in the economic sector are often used by migrants who work in formal and informal sectors, while local working age Papuans, especially university graduates, are less interested to be economic agents in Papua. This study aimed to discover factors which drove and improved entrepreneurial intention of Papuan students based on their personality characteristics: self-efficacy and need for achievement; formal environmental factors such as Entrepreneurship education and socio-cultural factor which was culturally-formed gender stereotypes. The research design was explanatory research with samples collected by stratified random sampling technique and the samples were 197 students from 4 universities in Jayapura. The data collection technique used questionnaires and data was analyzed by difference test and path analysis. The research result showed (1) Female students have stronger entrepreneurial intention, motivation for achievement, and self-efficacy than male students. (2) Partially, everything had direct influence on the formation of entrepreneurial intention except for entrepreneurship education
Highlights
Papua Province is rich in natural resources
Problems faced today is the low intention of entrepreneurship especially among indigenous Papuan students to participate as economic actors in their own region, such as being an independent entrepreneur
The population in this study were all native Papuan students scattered throughout the universities in the city of Jayapura have earned entrepreneurship education amounted to 389 students spreader across four state and private universities
Summary
Economic growth in Papua Province is played more by foreign investors were much engaged in mining, forestry and fisheries, while the industrial sector that absorbs labor is very limited, so that economic growth and employment are inconsistent, and the unemployment rate of graduates of all levels of education is increasing. Law no 21/ 2001 on Special Autonomy, which requires a great opportunity and empowerment for indigenous Papuans to do business in the economic sector. Seeing this opportunity it should utilize indigenous Papuans great opportunity to become economic actors in the region, including the Papua original student which is the young generation expected to be the future backbone for the acceleration of development in Papua. Problems faced today is the low intention of entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship desires) especially among indigenous Papuan students to participate as economic actors in their own region, such as being an independent entrepreneur (self-employment)
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