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4. Discussion and Conclusion
Creative MSE can be seen as a potential economic generator for Indonesia.
Its amount is numerous compared to MLE because it is easily established.
Although MSE’s share of gross domestic product is relative small, it can
employ many workers in facing bonus of demography. Comparing to MLE,
creative MSE needs more improvement on technology use, partnership, and
guidance in operating business. Due to the importance MSE’s role, the
ministry of industry takes MSE as one of national priority in Making Indonesia
4.0 roadmap.
On the other side, positive signal of Indonesian youth contribution in
pursuing goal of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution; the world's 10 largest economy,
has actually been existed. Through creative economy sector, the dominance
of young entrepreneur in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution era tends to be on
novelty subsectors, such as application and game developer, visual
communication design, photography, culinary, fashion, film, animation, and
video as well. The youthpreneur is better than nonyouthpreneur in conducting
technology-based business and developing the business through partnership
system. Besides in terms of level of labour certification, youthpreneur tends
to hire more certified workers.
The superiority of Indonesian young generation is a potential that must
be continually built up along with global development. Therefore, the Minister
of Industry, Airlangga Hartarto, said that education curriculum of Indonesia
would be changed by emphasizing on Science, Technology, Engineering, the
Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) and improving the quality of vocational
school. So, the youth will be better prepared for facing 4.0 Industrial
Revolution.
In addition to formal education, encouraging youth mentality is also
important to form the selfsufficient youth. Entrepreneurship can be a solution
to the youth unemployment rate that is higher than the national
unemployment rate, as revealed by the World Bank Lead Economist, Vivi
Alatas, in Kompas.com. Young age can’t be an excuse as barrier to be a
successful entrepreneur. Research of Javier Miranda from Statistics Bureau of
USA and Pierre Azoulay from MIT stated that most of the founders of business
in the United States in the past few years have been successful at an average
age of 45 years and founders in their 20s are the most likely to succeed in
building their company.
At least, there are some things that young people need to embed inside
themself in the era of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution. First, youth shouldn’t
hesitate to become tough independent entrepreneur by having idea,
innovation, and creativity. Second, youth should have initiative to develop
selfimprovement through education, training, and course. Third, youth should
be open and ready to the fast evolving of information technology. Thus,

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