17_jwe_1-2 UDC: 334.722-055.2(594) 005.32-055.2 JEL: L26, J16 COBISS.SR-ID: 238900492 SCIENTIFIC REVIEW Women Entrepreneurs in MSEs in Indonesia: Their Motivations and Main Constraints Tulus Tahi Hamonangan Tambunan1 Center for Industry, SME and Business Competition Studies, USAKTI, Jakarta, DKI, Indonesia A B S T R A C T This paper is based on a research aiming to examine the development of women entrepreneurs in Indonesia by exploring their main personal motivations or initial reasons to do own businesses and identifying their main constraints in running businesses. The research was based on a desk study, secondary data analysis, and a small field survey of 108 women owning micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in the Great Jakarta area. Findings from the survey show that many of them run their own businesses as a means to survive, and limited access to finance is the most serious constraint faced by the respondents, caused by their lack of valuable assets as collateral. The paper concludes that the growth of number of women-led businesses, especially MSEs, in Indonesia should not be regarded only as the rise of entrepreneurship among women in the country. Unemployment or poverty may have also played a role in pushing many women to conduct own small businesses. KEY WORDS: women entrepreneurship, MSMEs, MSEs, MLEs, gender, entrepreneurs, push and pull 1 Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University, Jl. Kyai Tapa No.1, Grogol, Jakarta Barat, Indonesia. Email: ttambunan56@yahoo.com. Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 57 Introduction Only after the Asian financial crisis in 1997/98 public (policy makers, academics and practitioners) interest in development of women entrepreneurship in Indonesia started to emerge, for at least three main reasons. First, it cannot be denied that number of women entrepreneurs in Indonesia increase from year to year. In Indonesia, traditionally, women who are actively involved as entrepreneurs or business owners are found mainly in micro and small enterprises (MSEs). While, total number of women owning/managing medium and large enterprises (MLEs) in Indonesia is relatively small. By economic sector, they are mostly found in trade and services, managing/owning e.g. small shops, food stalls, beauty salons, boutique/fashions, and catering. In rural areas, women doing own businesses are mainly as petty traders operating in traditional market centers. In industry, they are mainly found in small-sized handicraft, food and beverages, and clothing industries. As their number continues to rise, women entrepreneurs in Indonesia have been designated therefore as the new engines for economic growth to bring prosperity and welfare in the country. Indeed, worldwide, in the past, say, two decades, many stakeholders have pointed at women entrepreneurs as an important untapped source of economic growth and development in developing countries. Second, as Indonesia also joined the UN-initiated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that ended in 2015 (and followed up by Millennium Sustainable Goals (MSG)), in which women empowerment is among the goals, the Indonesian government realized that development of women entrepreneurs is crucial in order to achieve that particular goal. Third, as poverty is still a serious not only social but also political issue, the active involvement of women in economic activities outside home, not only as wage-paid workers as they are widely found in labour-intensive industries (e.g. textile and garments, leather products, food and beverages, and tobacco products), but also as business owners or entrepreneurs, would have a significant effect on poverty reduction. Therefore, in realizing this potential important role of women, in fact, the Indonesian government has been trying since the end of the Asian financial crisis to encourage women entrepreneurship development by supporting the development of MSEs through various programs since these enterprises are considered as an important avenue for the testing and development of women entrepreneurial ability. The programs include vocational trainings, technical assistances, microloans from banks and other 58 Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) formal financial institutions, and supports (in financial, technical, marketing and provision of raw materials) provided by state-owned enterprises through partnership programs. Many of these programs are implemented in collaborations with foreign governments (e.g. Australia, Canada), UN organizations (UN Women) and international non-government organizations (e.g. the Asia Foundation). In addition, in 2007 the government launched a public credit guarantee scheme (known as Community Business Credit or KUR) targeting especially MSEs, as most of this tiny enterprises, mainly in the trade sector, owned or managed by women. However, as in many other developing countries, despite the growing number of women-led business or as entrepreneurs and a significant increase of initiatives, policies and resources as explained above designed to promote and develop women‘s entrepreneurship, the gender gap in entrepreneurship in Indonesia persist. Studies or literature on women entrepreneurs in Indonesia are also not so many. At least there are two main reasons. First, national data on total number of women entrepreneurs and their key characteristics in Indonesia are limited. Even, Indonesian Women Entrepreneurs Association (IWAPI) does not have comprehensive database on total number of women entrepreneurs in Indonesia, except its own list of members, who are mainly owners of large-scale/modern businesses and located in big cities. Second, as mentioned before, the public interest on women entrepreneurship in Indonesia has just revealed after the 1997/98 Asian financial crisis, driven mainly by the introduction of the MDGs. This paper is based on a research with its main objective to examine the development of women entrepreneurs in Indonesia with the focus on personal motivations or reasons of women in doing their own businesses and their main constraints in running businesses. Identifying personal motivations may give an idea on whether the current development of women entrepreneurs in Indonesia is a direct reflection of entrepreneurship spirit among women or, on the contrary, as a direct consequence of economic hardships faced by many women in the country. Main business constraints to be identified may show the current condition of women entrepreneurship development and the growth of businesses owned or managed by female in Indonesia. At least from the Indonesian perspective, this research is important, not only because studies on Indonesian female entrepreneurs are rare, but none of existing studies so far have given a special attention to the question: why many women have conducted their own businesses in Indonesia? Is that a Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 59 positive sign, looking from the perspective of women entrepreneurship development in Indonesia and government efforts to support them? This question is important simply because the existing public opinion in Indonesia (and probably in many other countries) is that the increase in number of female-led businesses is a positive sign, reflecting the rise of women's entrepreneurship spirit. But, is that true, including those doing MSEs? Would it not be possible that many women, especially from poor/low income households, are doing any kind of small businesses such as owning small food stalls, petty traders, and food and beverages vendors because of economic or financial hardship? The focus of this research was on women entrepreneurs in MSEs with the following three reasons. First, entrepreneurship development is usually associated with the growth of MSEs: individuals started their own businesses from very small. Second, secondary data which are available so far suggest that there are more women as business owners in MSEs than in MLEs (moreover, Indonesia does not have official national data on women entrepreneurs in MLEs). This is not, however, a typical Indonesia, but a key feature of MSEs in developing countries or even in the world. Although the level of women as owners of MLEs may vary by country (depending on many local factors such as level of economic development, women access to high education, and norms and cultures), evidence available shows that in all countries across the world, including in OECD and other developed countries, the number of women as business owners or managers in MSEs is much higher than in MLEs (see e.g. GEM, 2015; WEF, 2015). Third, national policies to promote women entrepreneurship in Indonesia are an important element of national policies on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) development in the country. Specifically, the research has the following three research questions. First, how has been the development of women entrepreneurs in Indonesia? Second, for those women in Indonesia who are currently running their own businesses, what is their main motivation/reason in undertaking their own businesses; why they are not working as employees in someone's companies or in ministries as civil servants or studying in universities or just staying at home as housewife doing domestic works? Third, what are the main constraints facing women entrepreneurs in Indonesia? As the research was an exploration in nature, methodologically, it addressed those questions with the following approaches: (i) by reviewing selected key literature on development of women entrepreneurs in 60 Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) developing countries in general and in Indonesia in particular; (ii) by reviewing official reports and other materials on current national policies to support women entrepreneurship development in Indonesia; (iii) by analyzing available secondary data on women entrepreneurs in Indonesia; and (iv) by conducting a small field survey of randomly selected 108 MSEs owned or managed by women in the Great Jakarta area. The last two research questions were worth addressed by empirical endeavor through a field survey in order to observe closely their current situations and to have their own words on why they do their own businesses (motivation) and what current main constraints they are facing in managing their enterprises. Definition of MSEs in Indonesia Based on the Law on Small and Medium Enterprises Number 20, 2008, issued by the State Ministry of Cooperative and Small Medium Enterprises (CSMEs), MSEs are businesses with annual sales/turnovers up to Rp 2.5 billion and fixed investment (excluding land and building) less than Rp 500 million. Besides this Law, the National Agency of Statistics (BPS) defines MSEs as businesses with maximum 20 workers, excluding the owner. In reality, however, MSEs in Indonesia (as in other developing countries) are not only different in total number of employees, annual revenues, and value of invested capital, but they are also different in many other aspects in comparison with MLEs. Most MSEs are mostly operated in the informal sector (not registered and not paying taxes); they do not adopt modern management system. Also MSEs have more women as business owners compared to MLEs for the following two key reasons: (i) for conducting activities in MSEs, not so much capital, advanced technologies and high formal skills are needed, because in general MSEs are very simple income generating activities such as food production, food stalls, shops selling basic goods, trade, and handicraft; (ii) because of simple and very small activities, no special space is needed and especially for married women, they are more easy in using their time between servicing their customers an doing their required domestic works. Current Development Most of businesses in Indonesia are from micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), i.e. around 99.99 percent of total business Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 61 establishment in the country, and their number steadily increases every year (Table 1). The majority of the enterprises are scattered widely throughout rural areas, and, therefore, likely to play an important role in helping develop the skills of villagers, not only technical skills but also entrepreneurial, particularly for women. However, most of them, mainly MSEs are undertaken or set up by poor households or individuals who could not find a better job elsewhere, either as their primary or secondary (supplementary) source of income. Many women who have been found to do their own businesses in MSEs are not really encouraged by their high spirit of entrepreneurship but mainly because there are poor and no other better income generating activities are available for them. Therefore, the presence or the growing of MSEs in Indonesia is often considered as a result of unemployment or poverty, not as a reflection of entrepreneurial spirit (Tulus Tambunan, 2009a). Table 1: Total Enterprises by Size Category in All Economic Sectors in Indonesia, 2006-2013 (in thousand units) Notes: MIEs = microenterprises; SEs= small enterprises; MEs=medium enterprises; LEs=large enterprises. Sources: processed data from the State Ministry of CSMEs (:www.depkop.go.id) and BPS (www.bps.go.id). Gender Gap in Indonesia It can be hypothesized that there is a positive (negative) relationship between the participation rate of women as entrepreneur and gender equality (inequality), ceteris paribus, other factors affecting the growth of number of women entrepreneurs are constant. Thus, the relatively low number of women entrepreneurs in many, especially developing/low income countries, 62 Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) may reflect, among other problems, the lack of gender equality in these countries. The current level of gender equality (or inequality) can be seen from a number of indexes. First, the Global Gender Gap Index from the World Economic Forum (WEF), which measures gaps between women and men in four areas, economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. With reference to Indonesia, for instance in 2014 it was in the 95th place out of 136 countries, and in 2015, the position of Indonesia has improved, though slightly, to 92 out of 145 countries. With respect to economic participation and opportunity, Indonesia is, however, in very low position, namely 114, which suggests that most women in the country still encounter difficulties to participate in economic activities (Table 2). Although, the indicator of economic participation and opportunity does not focus specifically on entrepreneurship, this fact may indicate that Indonesia still needs to work in order not only to increase the number of women entrepreneurs but, more importantly, the number of women having large and profitable businesses. Table 2: Global Ranks of ASEAN Member States according to the Global Gender Gap Index and Its Sub-indexes, 2015 (145 countries) Member states Global Gender GAP Index Indicator Economic participation and opportunity Educational attainment Health and survival Political empowerment Philippines 7 16 34 1 17 Leo PDR 52 11 116 92 84 Singapore 54 9 111 122 92 Thailand 60 19 67 1 131 Vietnam 83 41 114 139 88 Brunei Darussalam 88 23 70 131 145 Indonesia 92 114 89 60 71 Cambodia 109 63 127 1 109 Malaysia 111 95 100 110 134 Source: WEF (2015) Second, the Gender Inequality Index from the UNDP, which is a composite measure reflecting inequality in achievement between women Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 63 and men in three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market participation. In 2012, the score for Indonesia was 0.494 (0=equality; 1=inequality), the most unequal within ASEAN (with Singapore as the most equal member state), and in 2013 the score increased slightly to 0.500 or ranks 103 out of 152 countries, or in ASEAN in the 7th position out of 9 member states included in the report (Figure 1). Figure 1: Global Ranks of ASEAN Member States According to the Gender Inequality Index, 2013 (152 countries) Source: UNDP (2014). Finally, the 2012 Women’s Economic Opportunity (WEO) Index created the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) which focuses on the barriers affecting women’s access to economic opportunities in the formal economy. The Index aims to look beyond gender disparities to the underlying factors affecting women’s access to economic opportunity. It draws on data from a wide range of international organizations, including the UN, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and many others. The result is a comprehensive assessment of the enabling environment for women’s economic participation in 128 countries, and it ranks Indonesia 85th. According to the report (EIU, 2012), many factors may explain this low rank of Indonesia. These factors include the following four important 64 Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) aspects which have strong influences on development of women entrepreneurs in the country: (1) Training programs. Many vocational training programs are only found in big cities, which means that women in rural areas have no access to them, and in the big cities, many training programs are not affordable for the majority of women because of such as culturally inappropriate and the length of training does not take into account women’s time burdens. While, training programs, besides formal education, are very important for women, especially those who have no access to higher education such as university for a variety of reasons, to be able to get access to productive employment opportunities or are very useful for women to develop their own businesses. (2) Formal education. Despite that Indonesian government has been giving many efforts through many regulations to generate equal access to formal education from primary to tertiary for all, men and women, the fact shows for almost all key education indicators, the rate of men is still higher than that of women, such as school life expectancy (primary and secondary), higher educational attainment, means years of schooling, and adult literacy rate. (3) Women's legal and social status. This aspect has three important indicators for which the rank of Indonesia is still low. First, domestic violence, sexual assault and sexual harassment against women is still high; although much better in comparison with those in many African countries. Since the first year of the reform era (1999), soon after the Asian financial crisis 1997/98, the Indonesian government has put efforts to improve existing laws protecting women. Second, freedom of movement which measures the opportunity of women to move outside the home, and lack of it constrains women’s ability to work. Although Indonesia has made a progress in this issue in the past 50 years, still many women, especially in relative strong Muslim families and in rural areas, are not free to go far from their home alone or without their husband. Third, data on property ownership rights in legal codes in Indonesia indicate that men and women still do not have equal ownership rights over moveable and immoveable property. Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 65 (4) Access to finance. Although the Indonesian government has formally started in 2007 the so-called 'inclusive economic development' with 'inclusive finance' as the main important element of it, striving to enhance access to financial services for both men and women, the fact still indicates that women’s access to financial programs (availability of outreach programs to women that target the provision of financial services through either government initiatives or private lenders) still behind that of their man counterpart. Development of Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia Worldwide, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring (GEM, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015), activities of women entrepreneurs increase from year to year and become important drivers of economic growth in many of these countries. GEM estimates that more than 187 million women are engaged in entrepreneurial activity. Hillary Clinton, then the U.S. Secretary of State, during the first Women and Economy Forum held in San Francisco in 2011, emphasized the important role of women- owned MSMEs in the Asia-Pacific (APEC) region play to spur innovative growth. She said that women represent 40 per cent of the global labor force, 43 per cent of the global agricultural workforce, and there nearly 6 million formal, female-owned small businesses in East Asia. And in economies like Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, female-owned businesses are increasing and growing quickly (Nina Merchant-Vega and Kate Bollinger, 2012). According to the most recent report from the GEM (2015), the continued increase of women entrepreneurs in the world have narrowed the gender gap by 6 per cent since 2012. In Indonesia, based on data available from the Ministry of CSMEs, as January 2015, total number of entrepreneurs is 1.65 percent of the country's total population of 253.61 million people, which is the lowest in comparison with many other countries in Asia and in the United States of America (USA) (Table 3). 66 Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) Table 3: Total Entrepreneurs as a Percentage of Total Population in Indonesia and Other Selected Countries, January 2015 Country Total Population (million people) Percentage of total Entrepreneurs Indonesia 253.61 1.65 Japan 127.10 10.0 Singapore 5.40 7.0 China 1,355.69 10.0 Malaysia 30.00 5.0 Thailand 318.89 12.0 South Korea 67.74 3.0 USA 50.20 4.0 Source: the State Ministry of CSMEs (Kompas, Ekonomi, Thursday, 12 March 2015). With respect to women entrepreneurs, despite studies and national data on entrepreneurship development by gender in Indonesia are limited, available evidence suggests that the development of women as business owners/managers in the country shares the same features as women's entrepreneurship development in many other developing countries. As stated in e.g. Tambunan (2009c, 2015), in Indonesia women are many times less likely than men to own businesses, especially in large size with many employees. This fact was also confirmed by Shinta Widjaja Kamdani, the founder of Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia (GEPI) that the number of women as entrepreneurs in Indonesia is much less than men. According to her, as quoted from ANTARA News.Com accessed online in 2011 the year when GEPI was formerly established (http://www.antaranews. com/en/news/89197/gepi-hopes-number-of- indonesian-female-entrepreneurs-up), the gap between male entrepreneurs and female entrepreneur was in the range of 30 per cent in the last decade. In 2000 the gap was improved slightly to 26 per cent, but in 2002 it widen again to about 36 per cent. In 2004 the gap was 37 per cent, in 2006 38 per cent, in 2008 32 per cent and in 2010 it was around 34 per cent. Unfortunately, GEPI does not provide more recent information on the gap between women and men entrepreneurs. International Labour Organization (ILO) provides regularly key Indicators of the labour market in almost all countries in the world, including data on employers by gender. It refers employers as those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners, hold the type of jobs defined as a "self-employment jobs", i.e. jobs where the Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 67 remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced), and, in this capacity, have engaged, on a on a continuous basis, one or more persons to work for them as employee(s). Based on this indicator, the percentage of women as employers in Indonesia is very low, except in 2013, which suggests that the level of women involved as entrepreneurs has been increased significantly from only around 1.3 per cent in 2009 to almost 13 per cent of total employers in the country. While, those who are considered as own-account workers, the percentage is much higher although declined overtime from around 31 per cent in 2001 to 16.6 per cent in 2013 (Table 4). Table 4: Indonesian Women as Employers and Own-account Workers 2001-2013 (%) Year Employer Own-account workers 2001 1.1 31.1 2002 1.1 33.9 2003 1.0 29.8 2004 1.1 31.9 2005 1.2 29.9 2006 1.1 32.8 2007 1.4 34.4 2009 1.3 34.5 2013 12.7 16.6 Source: ILO (Key Indicators of the Labour Market: http://www.ilo.org/global/statistics- and-databases/research-and-databases/kilm/lang--en/ index. htm). Other two sources also show the same features about the development of women entrepreneurs in Indonesia. First, data from World Bank's Enterprise Survey show that in Indonesia firms with women top managers are 31.2 per cent of total firms, and percentage of firms with female participation in ownership (average reported by surveyed firms) are 42.8 (https://www.enterprisesurveys.org/data). Second, the special report 2015 from the GEM, conducted by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), which shows that in Indonesia women intentions to start a business, is lower compared to men (i.e. around 30 per cent against 34 per cent for men). Within ASEAN, entrepreneurship intention of women in 68 Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) Indonesia is higher than those in Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, but much lower than those in the Philippines (GEM, 2015)2. If this GEM survey result does tell the true about the real condition in Indonesia, it may suggest two things. First, Indonesian female entrepreneurial spirit is lower than that of male. Because of culture, religious (Muslim), and social status in Indonesia are more in favor of men than women, which make women less independent persons and less freedom to make any decisions by their own, less women than men who may think or dream to become an entrepreneur. Second the survey finding shows that entrepreneurship intention of women in Indonesia is higher than those in e.g. Malaysia and Thailand, despite being reported (see Figure 1) as having a greater gender inequality index than those two countries. This may imply that Indonesian female entrepreneurial spirit is higher than those in Malaysia and Thailand. But, it can be assumed (as no regional data are available) that the rate of women entrepreneurs (as percentage of total entrepreneurs) in Indonesia is lower than those in Malaysia and Thailand because Indonesian higher gender inequality. Based on employment data from the annual National Labor Force Survey (SAKERNAS), which provides data on total population aged 15 years old and beyond by status of main work and gender, total number of women not as employees but working alone (self-employment) or running their own businesses without wage-paid workers in Indonesia is lower than their male counterpart. In May 2013 there were only 0.85 million women having their own businesses compared to 3.41 million men, and in February 2014 around 0.77 million women against 3.38 million men. Either in percentage of total working population (aged 15 and beyond) or total employment, the share of women as self-employment or having own businesses with or without hiring workers in Indonesia is much lower than that of male entrepreneurs. As a percentage of total working population, the ratio as by May 2013 was 4.83 per cent for male and only 1.95 per cent for female, and in February 2014 it changed slightly to 4.65 per cent for male against female 1.69 per cent. With respect to total employment, the ratio in 1990 was 54.7 per cent and 30.5 per cent for respectively male and female, 2 GEM defines entrepreneurial intentions as the percentage of the adult population between 18-64 years (excluding individuals already engaged in any stage of entrepreneurial activity) who intend to start a business within the next three years. For Indonesia, GEM surveys 4,500 adults, between 15 and 64 years old, in selected 16 provinces, which represent 85 per cent of the total Indonesian population (GEM, 2015). Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 69 and in 2015, 41 per cent and 30.7 per cent, respectively. This low rate of women participation as business owners than is also found in all economic sectors. For instance, in the manufacturing industry, more than half of total MSEs are owned by male, although the ratios between female and male vary by year (Figure 2). Figure 2: Total MSEs in the Manufacturing Industry by Gender of the Owner, 2003-2012 (%) Source: BPS This distribution of business ownership by gender in Indonesia may suggest a negative relationship between the level of women involvement as entrepreneurs or business owners and the size of enterprises: becoming an entrepreneur in Indonesia is still dominantly a man culture, especially in large-sized modern companies. The figure also shows that the percentage of businesses in the manufacturing owned by women varies by year and during the period 2003-2012 ever reached the highest level in 2010 and 2011. No reports or literature can be found that can explain this variety. The increase of the rate of female ownership in 2010 and 2011 can happened due to the absolute number of business owned by women increased more rapidly than those managed by men, or, alternatively, many men-led businesses closed down or died during that particular years. One thing for sure is that the global financial crisis occurred in 2009 and 2010 had hit hard many exporting companies in Indonesia (e.g. textile and garments, footwear), and the effects continued in years after that. Many of these companies did subcontracting arrangements with many MLEs. As a direct result, many of the companies had to reduce their production volume, and consequently, many MSEs as their subcontractors had lost their orders and so they had to stop production. Another serious impact of the crisis on Indonesia was the significant drop in number of foreign tourists. In Bali, the most favorable 70 Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) destination for foreign tourists in the country was very quiet, which led many local shops selling souvenirs, microenterprises producing handicrafts and shirts, and other small businesses in cheap accommodations, restaurants and cafes, entertainment activities, and motorcycles rentals experienced great losses, and many of them had to stop their businesses (Tambunan, 2010, 2011). The above evidence again confirms what has been seen or discussed before that in Indonesia due to a variety of reasons already discussed the number of women doing own businesses, including in the category of 'self- employment' (e.g. as a trader, a food vendor or an owner of food stall) is much lower than that of men. Existing studies in other countries also come with the same evidence that the number of women as entrepreneurs or business owners in MIEs is higher than that in larger-sized and more modern firms3. The MDG Development Report (UN, 2010) confirms this that women are also more likely than men to work in informal sector/vulnerable income generating activities, either as own account workers or as contributing family workers, characterized by low earnings and productivity and lack of security and benefits. For Indonesia, this structure may suggests two things: on one side, the larger the size of an enterprise the less women involvement as owners or managers, or women seems to have more barriers to be involved as entrepreneurs in modern businesses, and, on the other size, MSEs are more important than larger enterprises for the development of women entrepreneurs. Lack of education, strong 'men culture' inside the company, i.e. intense internal competition in working environment with very strict working hours and position promotion process, and less time flexibility that women have due to their other female duties such as taking care family and domestic works are among important reasons why only few women who manage big companies. As said before in introduction, many initiatives and programs have been initiated by the government, such as vocational trainings, technical 3 The term modern businesses means well organized business activities with clear internal labour division with wage-paid professionals, computerized, and adopted advanced technolgies including informmation technology (IT) and modern management practices. Based on number of workers, initial invested capital, and current asset values, many modern businesses are large sized enterprises with head offices located in big cities and registered in stock market. See further, e.g. UNSRID (2005), Lasse Henriksen, et al. (2010), UN (2010), and Dianna Fletschner and Lisa Kenney (2011). Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 71 assistances, and microloans to promote the development women entrepreneurs in the country. But, the fact shown above may suggest that all these initiatives and programs and resources used have not been so effective. Women in Indonesia are still lacking behind their men counterpart with respect to entrepreneurship development. There are two most likely reasons for this. First, the coverage of the programs is low, caused by e.g. too much concentrated in big cities (urban-biased), and lack of women condition sensitivity (as explained before related to the WEO Index from the EIU). Unfortunately, detailed information on the performance of existing training programs in the country which are specially organized for women is scarce. So, it is hard to assess the quality or the effectiveness of the programs on development of women entrepreneurs in Indonesia. Second, many women who may have attended such programs are still unemployed or they could not open their own businesses due to a variety of constraints including lack of fund and other inputs (although it is not necessary because they are women) and cultural or religious constraints that limit their free of movement (as discussed before), or make them difficult to find competent employees as in many cases Muslim married women are well permitted by their husband to manage a business outside home but they are not allowed to recruit male workers. So, it can be argued here that all training programs, no matter how good they are, will fail to reach its objective to improve women capability to run their own businesses, if not fully supported or complemented by other key determinants of women entrepreneur development such as free of movement, equal legal status, no gender discrimination within family and community, and easy access to financing, technology, information, and other required inputs. Motivation Generally, women enter entrepreneurship for many of the same reasons as men, such as wish to become an entrepreneur, to have own businesses, self-fulfillment, being their own boss, to support themselves and their families, to enrich their lives with careers, to attain financial independence (Karen Hughes, 2006; Jodyanne Kirkwood, 2009a,b; Karyn Loscocco and Sharon Bird, 2012), or they start their own business in response to the demands of parenthood and spouse/partner roles (Kirkwood, 2009a,b; John Breen and Stan Karanasios, 2010; Margo Hilbrecht, 2016). 72 Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) However, in Indonesia and many other developing countries, especially from low-income countries, women often show marked differences from their men counterpart in many characteristics that influenced their decision to run own businesses or to become entrepreneurs. Such age, work status, education, income, social ties, cultural norms or customs or tradition, family background, marriage status, family obligations, discrimination against women in many aspects of life (which is often the result of gender beliefs inherent in a culture or society), disproportionate bargaining power against men, and public/community perceptions are all significant social, economic and institutional factors are among key characteristics which determine a woman‘s decision to start a business (Tambunan, 2009c, 2015). Many studies in other parts of the world, show the same evidence that the great variety of women‘s involvement in economic activities as entrepreneurs across countries reflects distinctions in culture and customs regarding women‘s participation in the economy, for example, societal views about women‘s role in the labor force and in business more specifically, and also in current economic conditions4. Basically, individual persons or in this case women open their own business or become producers instead of working as employees in someone else' companies or, for married women, staying at home doing domestic works, can have two different motives. Either their decision to conduct own businesses is purely market orientation reflecting their high spirit of entrepreneurship, i.e. they are 'pulled' by market opportunities to conduct their own businesses. Or, a means to survive: they are 'pushed' to do that because all other options for them to get better jobs outside home are either absent or unsatisfactory, or to support family incomes. Based on her own study on women entrepreneurs in Indonesia, Janti Gunawan (2012) comes with conclusion that there are two different main motivation that woman decide to run own businesses, namely to help the family income or to optimize the talent. The first reason is linked to her family's income condition or poverty, while the second one can be considered as a sign of entrepreneurship. The relative prevalence of market/business opportunity motivated versus economic necessity-motivated entrepreneurship activity provides useful insights into why women enter entrepreneurship. The former 4 See, e.g. Wim Naudé (2010), José Amorós and Niels Bosma (2013), and Donna Kelley et al. (2013). Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 73 motivation can be considered as 'pull' factors driven entrepreneurship, and the later motivation as 'push' factors driven entrepreneurship. In GEM (2015), economic necessity-based is defined as the percentage of those driven by having no better choice for work. Market/business opportunity- based is defined as the percentage of those who are motivated to pursue opportunity. This includes taking advantage of a business opportunity or currently having a job, but still looking for a better opportunity. Table 5 shows that in Indonesia there are more male than female as necessity- motivated entrepreneurs in their early stage of entrepreneurship. In other ASEAN member states also surveyed by GEM share the same ratio. Table 5: Necessity-motivated Entrepreneurship by Gender in Selected ASEAN Member States, 2015 Member states Female Male (% of total early-stage F entrepreneurial activities) (% of total early-stage M entrepreneurial activities) Philippines 60 85 Vietnam 70 71 Indonesia 76 81 Malaysia 80 86 Thailand 81 82 Source: GEM (2015). Besides GEM (2015), there are only very few good studies on female entrepreneurs in developing countries which also discuss women's motivation or reason to conduct their own businesses. These studies are mainly on women entrepreneurs in rural South Asia which include Babak Mahmood, et al. (2012), Hina Shah (2013), Sidra Saeed, et al. (2014), Hina Shah and Punit Saurabh (2015), and Fathema Hani (2015) who found that many women do start micro-level businesses to support themselves and their families. By doing a survey on 160 women entrepreneurs in four major cities in Pakistan, Mahmood, et al. (2012) aimed to explore the factors responsible for motivation and hindrance in the way of female entrepreneurs and also address the pertinent gender issues in context of Pakistan. The findings illustrate that female entrepreneurs are motivated to earn money for personal use, to contribute to family income, personal ambition, and for self satisfaction. Shah (2013) and Shah and Saurabh (2015) have found that many women in India, especially in rural areas, do start micro-level businesses to support themselves and their families. Saeed, et al. (2014) 74 Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) interviewed 120 female entrepreneurs in Lahore (Pakistan) with the aim to explore social, cultural and economic implications of female entrepreneurship and identify the causes and motivational factors, obstacles, and gender discrimination. The result reveals that the majority of their respondents started their business to contribute to family income and personal interest. Hani (2015) conducted a survey on women entrepreneurs in micro businesses in Sylhet City (Bangladesh). Types of businesses include tailoring, handicrafts, boutique shop, catering, agro based/live stock, and clothing businesses. The finding shows that the major reason to start business of 14 out of a total of 50 respondents was generating income for the family. While the main motivation of the remaining respondents range from 'be self-dependent', 'continuation of family businesses', and 'gaining economic freedom'. Constraints and Challenges to Women’s Entrepreneurship in Indonesia Unfortunately, not so many studies have been made until now on the development of entrepreneurs by gender in Indonesia, especially those focusing on key challenges facing women to become entrepreneurs and main constraints that women-owned businesses have to face. Among very few studies available, is from Tambunan (2009b,c, 2015) who stated that the low representative of women as entrepreneurs in Indonesia can be attributed to a range of the following factors: (1) low level of education and lack of training opportunities which made Indonesian women severely disadvantaged in both the economy and society. It is especially true for women living in rural areas or in relatively backward provinces. Many rural women speak only their native language and never read newspapers and thus they are very restricted to communicate with the outside world. Also there are still many social, cultural and religious taboos that prevent those women who can and should be accessing higher education from doing so. As Widjajanti Suharyo (2005) has found, many parents living in rural areas still have the traditional thinking that (higher) education belongs to men only. Tambunan (2009c) has found that enterprises owned by women with only primary school are mainly from the category of MIEs with very low income. By region, better educated women entrepreneurs are Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 75 found more in the western and more developed part of the country, i.e. Java, the most populated island, and Sumatera, the second important island in terms of economic activities and population density, than in the eastern part, the least developed area; (2) heavy household chores. Especially in rural areas, women in general have more children, and they are more demanded to do their traditional role as being responsible for housework and child care than women in urban areas, especially in big cities. According to a 2013 study on access to trade and growth of women’s MSMEs in APEC developing economies, cited by Federica Gentile from UBI Business, gender-specific constraints such as childcare responsibilities are also an important issue that women entrepreneurs in Indonesia and other APEC developing members need to deal with in running their businesses (http://www.ubibusiness.com/topics/business- environment/indonesian-women-entrepreneurs-a-catalyst-for- growth-/#.VlOw1FXotjo); (3) there may be legal, traditions, customs, cultural or religious constraints on the extent to which women can open their own businesses. Especially in rural areas where the majority of population are Muslims and rather isolated from big cities like Jakarta, Islamic-based norms have stronger influence on women daily life. This makes female behavior or attitude in rural areas less open than male (or than urban women) to “doing modern business” culture. In such society, women must fully comply with their primary duty as their husband’s partner and housewife, they are not allowed to start their own businesses or to do jobs that involve contact with or managing men, or simply they are not allowed to leave the home alone. Marital status also plays an important role in the women’s choice of job. Older and married women in Indonesia, for instance, are more likely to be found in informal enterprises such as trade or other activities which enable them to combine household work and paid work. On the other hand, young single women who migrated from rural areas are more likely to be found working as wage employees in services and trading enterprises; (4) limited access to financing from banks or other formal financial institutions. This is indeed is a key concern of women business 76 Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) owners in Indonesia. This is found to be more problematic for women in rural areas or outside of major metropolitan areas such as Jakarta and Surabaya. This constraint is related to ownership rights which deprives women of property ownership and, consequently, of the ability to offer the type of collateral normally required for access to bank loans. In Indonesia, men are still perceived as the head of the family, and thus, in general, men are still perceived as the owner or inheritor of family assets such as land, company and house. A 2013 study on access to trade and growth of women’s MSMEs in APEC developing economies, cited by Federica Gentile from UBI Business, reports that in Indonesia, on one hand, the number of women’s owned MSMEs is growing quickly at around 8 per cent annually, but, on the other hand, their growth is potentially hindered by specific challenges, and access to credit is considered in this report as the main challenge for women entrepreneurs, because of complicated loan paperwork and high interest rates (http://www.ubibusiness.com/topics/business- environment/indonesian-women-entrepreneurs-a-catalyst-for- growth-/#.VlOw1FXotjo). In their study on patterns of Indonesian women entrepreneurship, Ummu Hania, et al. (2012) found that Indonesian women entrepreneur has high independent financial aspect in running their business. Only few women that use bank credit. Evidence from a Case Study: Motivation and Constraints In order to explore main reason or motivation of women in doing own businesses and to identify their main constraints in running their businesses, a study was conducted with a series of surveys on a total of 108 female owned/managed-MSEs. The survey used a semi-structured questionnaire and interviews and took place during February-April 2016. There were two main reasons why the selection of respondents was only from the MSE category, not including MLEs. First, based on the fact of the distribution of women entrepreneurs by size of enterprises in Indonesia that (as already explained in previous sections) more women entrepreneurs or doing own businesses are found in this category of enterprises than in MLEs. Second, it is not easy to identify MLEs managed or owned by female. Annually, the Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 77 Indonesian National Statistics Agency (BPS) publishes statistics on MLEs in selected sectors, including industry manufacturing, with a list of names and addresses of all companies in the sectors. But, the list does not have information on the names and gender of the owner or top executives. Also to interview owners of big companies normally require a lot of time as they are usually very busy and also no guarantee that invitation for interviews will be accepted after waiting for weeks. Table 6 represents various aspects of profile of the surveyed women entrepreneurs. As can be seen, most of the respondents aged above 35 years old, followed by those aged between 20-<25 years old, and some of them are still studying in academy (diploma) or university. The majority of the respondents were selected from Jakarta (the Capital city of Indonesia), although many of them born in outside the city. They came to the city when they were very young with their parents or already married and followed their husbands as migrants. The remaining respondents were selected randomly from other cities surrounding Jakarta, which include Tangerang, Bekasi, Cilegon, Depok and Bogor. More than half of the total respondents are married women, although some of them at the moment of the survey were widows. More than half of the total respondents started their businesses after 2000. As the aim of this study was not to test any hypotheses but to explore experiences of Indonesian female entrepreneurs regarding their initial motivations or reasons to establish own businesses, instead of working in someone else companies as paid employees or staying at home doing domestic works, especially married women, all those respondents were selected fully randomly. The selection of the cities was just a matter of time and cost efficiency. The finding of this exploration study may add new information to the existing study on women entrepreneurs especially in developing countries. The majority of the respondents were doing their own businesses in trade and restaurants. The selection of these two sectors was based on the fact (national data) that the majority of MSEs owned by women are found in these sectors. Trade includes such as conventional small shops, market traders, and only trade. However, there are few respondents who were found in manufacturing industry making simple consumption/household items including food such as making bread, and in "other sectors", which include event organizer, contractors, beauty salon, and catering. 78 Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) Table 6: Various Aspects of Profile of the Surveyed Women Entrepreneurs Aspect Distribution Percentage 1. Age group (years old) <20 1.9 20-<25 13.9 25-<30 11.1 30-<35 2.8 >35 70.4 2. Region Jakarta 68.5 Tangerang 13.0 Other cities 18.5 3. Status Married 76.2 Single 23.8 4. Period of establishment <1990 6 1990-2000 9.6 2001-2005 13.3 2006-2010 22.9 2011-2016 48.2 5. Sector Industry 3.6 Restaurant 25.0 Trade 58.3 Others 13.1 6. Highest level of formal education Primary school 9.5 Junior high school 9.5 Senior high school 44.1 Diploma/academy 19.1 University 16.7 No education 1.2 Source: field survey: February-April 2016 As the main objective of the survey was to explore what are their initial motivations or reasons to establish own businesses, the respondents were given a variety of alternative answers that they have to choose only one, and Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 79 these answers can be grouped into two categories: "push" and "pull". If a respondent selected an alternative answer from the "pull: category, then it indicates that she was attracted by e.g. market opportunities to become an entrepreneur or to establish her own business, although she may have better income/employment opportunities somewhere else. This may suggest that she has an entrepreneurship spirit. Alternative answers open to the respondents from the "pull" category are such as "I want to be an entrepreneur", "I want to have own businesses", or "I want to be financially independent". While, alternative answers from the "push" category are "to supplement family income", "I could not find job", or "I have to run/continue business of my parents". Although the survey used a deductive approach with pre-determined push and pull questions, during the interviews the respondents were asked first to tell their initial reasons or motivations in their own words, and also their social and economic conditions at the time they decided to establish their own businesses. Then, they were asked to choose one of the given alternative answers they think appropriate. When the chosen answers were found inconsistent with their told initial stories, they were asked to elaborate further their stories to get the real picture. Obviously, based on their answers, the majority of the respondents (i.e. 60) can be categorized as "push" (or "forced") entrepreneurs, and the remaining 48 respondents as "pull" (or "encouraged") entrepreneurs. From the "push" category, 56 respondents said that they run their own businesses just as a means to survive or to supplement their family income, or as the only source of income because they could not find a job elsewhere. Whereas, the reason of the remaining 4 respondents is that they have to take over their parent's businesses. From these 56 respondents whose motivation was to "supplement family income", most of them have only senior high school or lower, and they are married. For married respondents, status of employment of their husbands varies, e.g. regular employees in private company, small trader, civil servant, office boy, driver, self employment, and some were unemployed. The respondents said that they have never dreamed before to have own businesses. Most of them claimed that one day after finished school she would get married and, if allowed by their husband, they will work as an employee or just became a housewife. They said frankly that salary of their husband is not enough to support their family, and so, when finding jobs 80 Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) elsewhere is difficult, open own small businesses according to their ability was their only option. Finally, the respondents from both categories were asked about their constraints in running their businesses. As with other issues investigated, here too they were given a number of alternative answers in which each of them had to choose only one that they considered as the main constraint they faced. The alternative answers were: (I) limited access to finance, (II) no support from family or husband; (III) difficult to manage time for family/household and business; (IV) difficult to get business license; (V) difficult to get market access (heavy competition); (VI) difficult to get raw materials (no stock available or prices are too expensive); (VII) difficult to find workers (in many cases in Indonesia as in other "Muslim" countries, many women owned businesses are allowed by their husbands to have only female employees); and (VIII) others (e.g. market demand declines, inflation, difficult to find location). As shown by Figure 3, the most interesting finding is that almost all "push" respondents said that lack of access to finance (problem I) is their most constraint; while only very few of the "pull" respondents said the same. There is no theoretical explanation for this, as for banks they do not make or they cannot see the difference between "push" or "pull" entrepreneurs. For financial institutions only business visibility and bankability of an applicant are their most concern. Another interesting finding is that problem II (no support from family or husband) was only found in "pull" category, although only few of them said this as their main constraint. The same for problem IV (difficult to get business license), only found by (though only few) "pull" respondents. In overall, it reveals that limited access to finance is the most serious constraint. There is no evidence that banks in Indonesia discriminate against women in their lending of fund. Officially, there is no a special designed credit application procedure which discriminates between male and female or between single women and married women in the credit application procedures. In the past, for married women applicants banks used to require a signature of their husband; but not anymore (although it may happen occasionally in some villages). Moreover, as Indonesia fully supports the achievement of UN-MDG/SDG, the Indonesian government commits to empower women, and, as explained earlier (see page 1), many programs have been initiated to supports women's capacity building, including easy access to financing (microloans). Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 81 Figure 3: Respondents from Both Categories by Main Constraints Source: field survey: February-April 2016 As a matter of fact, in Indonesia lack of finance is not only a constraint faced by female-led MSEs, it is also a general problem faced by men-led MSEs, as also evident in many other developing countries. The lack of registered valuable assets (e.g. land with license) to be used as collateral, the lack of proven track records, the lack of proper business plans and the need to show good sales turnover, the lack of information about financial possibilities from formal sources (e.g. banks), and the high interest rates charged by the financial institutions are often mentioned as the main reasons. Also, many often, businesses of especially MSEs, are not promising; at least from the banks' perspective. From the banks-side, even if they are interested in providing loans to these enterprises, they find it difficult to significantly expand their lending while meeting lending criteria. Also many banks have perception of MSEs as a high-risk sector and the high transaction costs for loan processing and appraisal (i.e. relatively small loan amounts that are below banks' normal lending threshold), and conversely, low returns. The perceived high risk is a more serious issue for microenterprises (MIEs) that require small loans, and for first-generation entrepreneurs with little or without credit history, few or no reliable records, and lack of or inadequate collateral (e.g. World Bank, 2008; ADB, 2014a,b). The respondents who said that limited access to bank is their main 82 Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) constraint admit that lack of valuable assets as collaterals as the main reasons. From the discussions with the respondents during the survey, none of them mentioned that they ever attended any government initiated programs, for example, vocational trainings. Some said that they do not really need; they only need access to finance or others such low prices of raw materials. While, others told that they never heard about all those government programs. Indeed, lack of socialization or dissemination of existing government programs often said as among reasons why many of MSEs development programs in Indonesia turn out to be ineffective (e.g. low level of coverage). Conclusion Entrepreneurship development, especially the growth of women entrepreneurs, in Indonesia has attracted a serious attention from the government and it has become a popular and important issue within the academic community after the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98. After the crisis the Indonesian government has at last realized that to have a good and sustain economic development performance, not only technology, capital, natural resources and skilled workers are needed but good entrepreneurs with bright ideas and creativity are also required. Whereas the increasing government attention on women entrepreneurship development was initially based on the strong believe that it may contribute to gender equality and poverty reduction. Available data indicate that women running or managing their own businesses are rising. But, the key question here is whether the increase in number of businesses owned by women does really reflect to increase of entrepreneurship among women in Indonesia? The results of the field survey shown in this chapter indicate that many women in Indonesia do own businesses, especially those in MSEs generally operated in the informal sector, as a means to survive, reflecting their economic hardship, not because they have a high spirit of entrepreneurship. It does not mean, however, that businesses run by "push"-motivated women entrepreneurs would not grow. They can become successful entrepreneurs someday in the future, as long as their motivation can change from initially "push" to "pull" motivation, i.e. from doing own businesses just to earn some money to doing own businesses to generate high profit. Although Tambunan, T.T.H., Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia, JWE (2017, No. 1-2, 56-86) 83 government supports have an important role to play, this change of motivation will occur naturally, encouraged by their environment (e.g. family, friends, new market opportunities). Another important finding from the survey is that limited access to finance is the most serious constraint faced by the respondents, and lack of valuable assets as collateral is the main reason. This may suggest that female entrepreneurship development programs in Indonesia should be focused on access to finance. This does not mean, however, that other programs are not important. As lack of finance faced by a company is often caused by its low revenues, and the latter is often the result of the company's internal problems, e.g. mismanagement, low productivity, inappropriate marketing strategy, and lack of appropriate technology, other development programs such as management and marketing trainings and technical assistance are also needed. But, from the survey, it was found that none of them ever attended government initiated training programs and one reason for that was lack of information about existing programs. Thus, it is obvious that the implementation of all government programs need to be reviewed with the focus on, among others, the improvement of their dissemination process and the increase of their geographical coverage. It should be noted, however, that the finding of the survey, given its small sample and only in Great Jakarta, should not regarded as the real picture of Indonesia female entrepreneurs. 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