Abstract

Cooperatives are seen as one of the important instrument to improve economic and social conditions of societies, to arouse the spirit of initiative and improving the general knowledge and technical skills of the society. On the present cooperatives members are business people of small medium scale enterprises (SMEs) which need a guidance or development. The purpose of this study is to describe the role of cooperatives in small medium scale enterprises (SMEs) development. The method used is descriptive qualitative. Data collection techniques used are observation, documentation and interview.The results of research showed that KSU Padurenan Jaya is a multi-purpose cooperatives that has five business units i.e. save loan, store, embroidery service, marketing, research and development. KSU Padurenan Jaya was instrumental in developing the small medium scale enterprises (SMEs) embroidery and convection consists of (1) aspects of the market, by following the events of the exhibition or expo, online marketing, providing material needs in the cooperative store, and create innovative products according to consumer taste. (2) the aspect of technology, by socialization and demonstration of the use technology of embroidery machines, embroidery design with computer programs, internet information technology for promoting and marketing product, And to optimize the use of the machine by provide services embroidery using advanced machine in cooperation so that can improve the productivity and efficiency of the business. (3) the aspect of the capital, by providing save loan service with simple procedures, mentoring to access other sources of financing.

Highlights

  • IntroductionManufacturing sector, without much known, is increasingly dependent on outof-state

  • Any steps done by community to realize the ideals of economic independence, or known as "flipping the base into the back end" in structural way changes the "colonial economy" into the national economy, this concept implies that by consciously shaping patterns, the national-based production based on one's own country's resources is completely overlooked.Manufacturing sector, without much known, is increasingly dependent on outof-state

  • It was established since the implementation of the program One Village One product program (OVOP) (One Village One Product) in Kudus which later was developed into productive village of UMKM/ MSME Cluster Embroidery and Convection

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Introduction

Manufacturing sector, without much known, is increasingly dependent on outof-state. The high import contents in the products of our manufacturing is because of not building the economy in accordance with our natural resources (resources based), and the influence of the bosses "import-business" which has economic interests in the micro, which is often at odds with macroeconomic restructuring efforts. There are some roles of importers and bureaucrats group as foreign compradors, who consciously or unconsciously distort the efforts of macroeconomic restructuring activities. We are inattentively the same as them in forming national consumption patterns. Public consumptions are increasingly dictated to consume goods and services which are full of imported-contents, which are at the expense of the national economy

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