Journal of Sustainable Community Development Vol.
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Inclusive Entrepreneurial Training for Women.
Small Farmers.
And Disabled People in Kupang.
East Nusa
Tenggara
Firdaus BasbethA
ASekolah Tinggi Manajemen PPM
ABSTRACT
ARTICLEINFO
This paper is about community development related to socioeconomic issues in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), an area known for its high rates of poverty and child malnutrition.
Wahana Visi Indonesia launched an Article History:
Inclusion Community Development Program to empower underprivileged households and small farmers in response to these Accepted : 21 Ae 05 -2025 Received : 02 Ae 04 -2025 Revised : 12 Ae 05 -2025 Published : 28 Ae 05 -2025 issues, working with the PPM School of Management.
Workshops that promoted opportunity recognition, business planning, and digital marketing were used to help participants develop their entrepreneurial abilities during the February 2025 event.
Explanation, coaching and mini case studies are a technique used in community development to comprehend and resolve issues.
The results show that despite efforts to include underrepresented groups, participants' Keywords:
Inclusion Empowerment Entrepreneurship Workshop NTT Province Social Entrepreneurship understanding of entrepreneurial principles was hindered by educational gaps.
By highlighting the value of cooperatives and ongoing training for sustainable economic growth in NTT, the JEL: J16.
Q12.
L26.
O15 program showed promise for fostering resilience and inventiveness in local economies.
Suggestions for upcoming projects include continued *Corresponding Author E-mail: fbs@ppm- assistance for collaborative growth and customized instruction to improve participants' business savvy.
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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-SA 4.
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Small Farmers, and Disabled People in Kupang.
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The region's poor physical infrastructure, such as its highways, seaports, and airports, is a major barrier to economic expansion and development in circumstances (Situmorang.
Suharto.
Sanga, & Mata, 2.
The business climate in NTT Province is further hindered by issues with worker productivity and the local economy's lack of utilisation (Pandina & Barika, 2.
The main economic engine of NTT is the agriculture industry, which employs more than 70% of the workforce and accounts for more than 40% of the region's gross regional product (GRDP) (BPS, 2.
Even though there isn't much fertile ground available, most of NTT's land is used for agriculture, including industries, plantations, food crops, forestry, and cattle (Suharyo et al.
, 2.
INTRODUCTION
The southernmost province of Indonesia is East Nusa Tenggara, sometimes referred to as Nusa Tenggara Timur.
Its entire land area is 47,238.
km2, and it includes the eastern part of the Lesser Sunda Islands, which face the Flores Sea to the north and the Indian Ocean to the south.
The largest of the archipelago's more than 500 islands are Sumba.
Flores, and the western portion of Timor (Karuniasa & Pambudi, 2.
The latter is adjacent to East Timor, a separate country.
The province is separated into twenty-one regencies, with Kupang, the capital and largest city, functioning as a regency (Fig.
In response to these pressing challenges.
Wahana Visi Indonesia (WVI), in collaboration with the PPM School of Management, launched an Inclusion program in February 2025.
The program aims to increase the economic empowerment of small farmers and vulnerable households in Eastern Indonesia through an inclusive Market System Development .
MSD) approach.
It enables the poor, women and persons with disabilities to benefit from an inclusive system.
The Australian government supports the program through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) and World Vision Australia.
The joint program between PPM and WVI in 2025 was intended to be delivered in East Nusa Tenggara.
The Inclusion Community Development Program (ICDP) aimed to improve the ability of small farmers, youth, and vulnerable The program was designed to enhance economic empowerment through an entrepreneurship workshop for individuals and the community in West Timor.
Ultimately, this will have a positive impact on farmers.
This community development report discusses how literacy in entrepreneurship may promote social change, providing insights into the difficulties and achievements in one of Indonesia's most socioeconomically disadvantaged areas.
Figure 1.
Map of East Nusa Tenggara The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province is divided into 21 districts and 1 city.
In 2024, the population of East Nusa Tenggara was 5,700,772 people and is divided into 6 sub-districts and 51 villages.
The capital city of East Nusa Tenggara is Kupang, which is the largest city on the island of Timor and is located on the coast of Kupang Bay, in the western part of the island.
East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) remains one of IndonesiaAos most underdeveloped regions, marked by persistent poverty and high levels of child As of 2024, the provincial poverty rate stood at 19.
48%, significantly higher than the national average (Irawan.
Kennedy, 2.
addition, the region recorded the highest child stunting rate in the country, reaching 37.
8%Aia critical indicator of long-term developmental challenges (Barlow & Gondowarsito, 2009.
Kobun & Susil.
These conditions are often rooted in limited access to quality education, healthcare, infrastructure, and viable economic opportunities, especially for smallholder farmers and vulnerable households (Aba.
Yussof, & Mohd, 2.
East
Nusa
Tenggara
(NTT)
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Table 1.
Program Plan Day One Two Learning outcome Understand how to gain opportunities by transforming a creative and innovative business idea into a business Understand how to establish and develop the venture Teaching method FGD on agriculture-related business, characteristics, and SWOT analysis.
Tutorial: Recognising opportunity, design thinking, business model canvas Business Feasibility, business plan and getting financing Table 2 shows that the majority of time is spent on FGDs and tutorials on identifying opportunities, so that participants grasp the most critical aspects to see their potential and strengths.
Following the lesson, an activity is performed to help students comprehend the topics, and post-tests are administered at the end of each event.
Assessment
Exercise Coaching clinic
Post-test Day 1
Exercise Coaching clinic
Post-test Day 2
RESEARCH METHOD
This exercise is broken into five stages, specifically:
develop the terms of reference (TOR), .
review inclusion: ensuring that women and individuals with disabilities are participate, .
understanding the demands of participants using FGD in SWOT entrepreneurship .
evaluation participants' The methods of community development activities are described in Table 1.
Table 2.
Methods and KPI Activity stages Method Key Performance Indicator Review the attendance profile to ensure the inclusion of women and individuals with disabilities Develop a project plan in terms of reference (TOR) Registration Review Aodocumentation:
Half of the participants were female, and more than two
participants had impairments TOR is available and ready to be Focus Group Discussion before the workshop starts Focus group discussion SWOT analysis available Entrepreneurship
Workshop
developing a successful venture Workshop
Assessment
on time delivery, improve knowledge and skills Quiz accuracy and exercise score
> 60%
Answer the quiz and assess the exercise done in each group.
In cooperation with WVI, the first two activities were conducted in Jakarta, as preparation stage, while the remaining activities were conducted in Swiss-Bell Kupang.
East Nusa Tenggara Province, over two days from February 18 to 19, 2025.
RESULT AND DISCUSSION
Attendance Profile The number of participants was 28 people, with details in Table 3
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Small Farmers, and Disabled People in Kupang.
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Attendance Profile Number Gender Perempuan Laki Asal daerah Malaka Kupang Timor Tengah Selatan Oben Timor Tengah Utara Veluis Alor Besmarak Kaniti Penpui organization .
%).
Focus group discussion (FGD) FGDs were conducted in order to identify possible business idea, information about commercial opportunities, and geographical potential.
Vegetables and legumes, such as moringa, bananas, chiles, purple eggplant, corn, tomatoes, cashew nuts, and walnuts, are some possible agribusinesses that might be established to boost the local economy.
Figure 1.
Participants with disabilities Table 3 demonstrates that the inclusion principle was met because there were three individuals with impairments and nearly as many women .
as males .
Participants in the workshop came from nine .
different regions.
the majority were from TTS.
Kupang, and Malacca, with the remainder coming from other areas.
Most participants were farmers .
%).
SME owner .
%) and intermediary traders and cooperative A A A A A A Figure 2.
Focus Group Discussion Information about strength, weakness opportunity and threat in west Timor from small farmers and traders, during FGD session are the following:
Tabel 4.
SWOT
Strength Opportunity The majority of the workforce is engaged in A Easy to reach the border area between the agricultural sector with long farming Timor Leste and other districts, such as Belu and Malacca, due to availability of good variety seeds, transportation between districts existence of farmers in groups to support A Marketing agricultural products that farming activities bring value add through internet Weakness Threats limited access to markets outside of the NTT A pricing competition between districts region, such as to Java or Bali, and Timor Leste, farmers' capital is inadequate.
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A infrastructure and facilities are still scarce.
Entrepreneurship Workshop Day 1 The first topic delivered was Opportunity Recognition, which demonstrates the capability of an individual / firm to identify a good idea and transform it into a business impression that improves value and creates revenues (Anwar.
Clauss, & Issah, 2.
The objectives for this topic are that after learning they should be ready to describe the three approaches that entrepreneurs use to identify opportunities, and generate ideas new venture can choose to pursue.
The session provides how to generating ideas using techniques for example: brainstorming, focus group, and library and internet research.
The facilitator then discusses the personal characteristics, of entrepreneurs that contribute to their ability to recognize business opportunities.
Below is the example of training materials delivered to participant (Fig.
an arid climate with little rainfall, and the near-extinction of several walnut tree water management solutions, agrotourism, and expanding market reach (Fig.
Figure 4.
Workshop and coaching In day one session 2, topic delivered is Design Thinking and Business model canvas (BMC).
With the same methos as session 1, we assessed the understanding of the training material using case and quiz.
The indicators of success are being able to solve the given case, and answering the quiz questions with 60% accuracy.
Below is an example of day one quiz using online quiz by quizzizz.
and the result of the first day's quiz.
Figure 3.
Example of training materials Following the explanation, the group was given two tasks to complete: .
a case study to find potential business prospects in NTT and .
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com's online quiz and the quiz's outcome are shown below.
Figure 5.
Quiz and results Only nine of the twenty-eight individuals who took the quiz achieved a score of more than sixty percent, with an average of forty-two percent, as shown in Figure 5 above.
Day 2 On the second day we taught about digital marketing, use casecatalog.
com to shoot their items, advertise on Facebook and Instagram, and sell at marketplaces.
Following explanation participants were given group case exercises to gauge their understanding.
Here is an example of a page of the group's training materials and Figure 7.
Day 2 quiz and result Only nine of the twenty-eight individuals who took the quiz achieved a score of more than sixty percent, with an average of forty-two percent, as shown in Figure 5 above.
The majority of those who scored higher than 60 were city inhabitants, traders, and those with higher educations.
According to the observation and group evaluation, the case study and individual exam had an average score of 70.
Discussion