Social Enterprise Development in Indonesia by Transdisciplinary Approach

Abstract

Indonesia is the most populous nation in Southeast Asia and its economy has been rapidly growing over the past years. However, the nation has numbers of challenges and facing various problems such as insufficient education problem derived from poverty due to delays of industrial development, drinking water and health impairment problems due to environmental degradation and traffic congestion in urban areas. In order to bring about sustainable development of the country, it is necessary to support and foster social enterprises that lead for solving such social problems. In response to this, the ultimate purpose of this research paper is to seek out how to advance the social entrepreneurship in Indonesia. One of the most important entities leading social problems to solve is forming a social enterprise. Because social enterprise can form the community services which cannot be formed in business firms, central or local governments. This research paper seeks the possibility of solving social problems by applying transdisciplinary approaches with the supports of collaboration between various stakeholders and scientists (co-design, co-production, co-delivery). Specifically, the purpose of this research paper is to clarify the path of developing a training and support system for social enterprises in Indonesia. It is difficult to seek out ways to support and nurture social enterprises by cooperation of industry, government and academia only. What is sought there is collaboration. In other words, in this research paper, we are trying to find ways to support and foster social enterprises by using a method called “transdisciplinary” while referring to collaboration examples of industry, government and academia in Japan. Under these circumstances in Indonesia, it is significant to consider supporting and fostering social enterprises for solving the social problems. This social enterprise support and foster system can be applied not only to Indonesia alone but also to many developing countries as long as it can be applied as development purposes to other countries.