Individual Business Liquidation: How Tempe Entrepreneurs in the Sutojayan's Village feel Disadvantage?

Abstract

People in the Sutojayan’s Village has great potential to stock tempe, as one of the flagship products of Malang. In there village, a lot of citizen are tempe entrepreneur. There are 55 tempe entrepreneur in 2012, but in 2015 only remaining 47 tempe entrepreneur. This drastic decline triggered a feeling of disadvantage of business from entrepreneur, so they change profession. It does not according with the village goverment’s efforts to stimulate tempe entrepreneur with providing business equipment, provide training product innovation, and various other types of education. Therefore, this study try to know the feeling disadvantage of tempe entrepreneur in the Sutojayan’s Village. Data was collected using a qualitative approach, phenomenology. Samples were taken using snowball sampling technique. Data taken by using in-depth interviews. Observation, and documentation were also used to support this research. In this study, the researcher acted as the instrument and at the same time acting as data collector. Examination of the validity of data using triangulation. The results showed that the micro-scale tempe entrepreneurs in the Sutojayan’s Village feel disadvantage when it can not meet their daily needs. This was triggered by the failure production, inability to sell all the products, or inability to collect accounts receivable. Hence, advice from this study is that the goverment should emphasize the provision of education to determine profit or disadvantage entreprises account, so that employer realize if business really suffered a disadvantage or not. In addition, tempe entrepreneur should be given provisions ability to innovate products that are not sold or failure of production, proficiency in product marketing, and expertise to manage accounts receivable. Future research could classify business disadvantages by the number of dependents and income, so we