Track: Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Abstract

Entrepreneurs in developing countries encounter several problems that might undermine their ability to become effective entrepreneurs and contribute to the national economy. These problems could exacerbate in micro-businesses and more specifically in women entrepreneurship. Meanwhile, women entrepreneurship is one of many sectors which potentially boost nation’s income of the country. However, there is a paucity of studies about women entrepreneurship in general and Indonesia, a developing country, in particular. Therefore, barriers analysis is needed to examine the problem so that it can be used as a reference in creating an enabling environment. This paper examines barriers which faced by Indonesian women entrepreneur especially for Greater Jakarta area and having Micro and Small business scale using four indicators: individual-familial, socio-cultural, economic-financial-commercial and structural that we adopted from Niazkar & Arab-Moghaddam (2011) framework. An online questionnaire was spread out and data collected from 50 women entrepreneur respondents. Based on the survey, there were distinctive barriers among women entrepreneur in Indonesia. Orderly from the most important barriers as follows: economic-financial-commercial, structural, socio-cultural, and personal-familial