| dc.description.abstract | The main objective of the Japan internship program for young farmers is to
address farmer regeneration problems in Indonesia. In other words, young
farmers joining the program in Japan could gain knowledge and experience
related to advanced technology, then after returning to Indonesia they could
implement those skills to be entrepreneurs. Therefore, the objectives of this
study were: 1) to describe the characteristics of Japan internship alumni; and
2) to analyze the contribution of individual, psychological characteristics and
entrepreneurial competence toward business performance of the Japan
internship alumni association. Purposive sampling approach was used to
determine the respondents in this study with the number of respondents as
many as 123 people. Respondents were spread from 3 provinces in Java
Island, namely West Java, Central Java and East Java. Data collection was
carried out from November 2020 to March 2021. In order to answer the
research objectives, path analysis was used as the basis for analyzing the
contribution of individual and psychological characteristics and
entrepreneurial competence to the business performance. In this research, it
can be seen that there was significant influence of both individual and
psychological characteristics toward entrepreneurial competency. In
addition, entrepreneurial characteristic variables had both a direct and
indirect influence on performance. Entrepreneurial competence also had a
positive influence on business performance. This reflects that after returning
to Indonesia, respondents had personalities that shape entrepreneurial
competencies. In this case, these competencies can ultimately drive business
performance. Thus, the Japan internship program had been able to shape
individual and psychological characteristics that were able to improve
entrepreneurial competence and business performance at the same time | en_US |
