The number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia only reaches 1.65 percent of the total population. This ratio is significantly lower than the number of entrepreneurs in neighboring countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. Developed countries like the United States and Japan, meanwhile, have more than 10 percent of their population as entrepreneurs.
Ideally, the number of entrepreneurs should be 2 percent of the total population, but to achieve a good per capita income target, 6.13 million entrepreneurs, or approximately 2.5 percent of the population, are needed. Currently, the number of established entrepreneurs is around 4 million.
Although the number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia is still very low, a 2013 survey by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) showed that Indonesians have the second-highest entrepreneurial aspirations in ASEAN after the Philippines.
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