Concocting Social Capital as Business Capital

Solider.id - Malang, Money capital and readiness of working tools often be obstacles for people with disabilities and other entrepreneurs in running business and entrepreneurship. But if consider to Workshop Social Enterprise batch-1 which are held by Lingkar Sosial Indonesia in Agrowisata Petik Madu, Lawang, Malang district, money capital and working tools can produce from concocting social capital well. So, for diffable who be able to process social capital, money capital, and working tools are not an absolute condition to start business. This article is relatively interesting for prospective entrepreneurs who have capital constraints.

What is Social Capital?

According to Putnam, Robert in book Bowling Alone the Collapse and Revival of Community, New York: Simon and Schuster, year 2000, Social capital is parts of the organization such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions. Social capital is described as a capability that appear from general society or parts of society. Whereas according to Fukuyama, F in article Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, New York, Free Pers, social capital is defined as a series of informal values ​​or norms that are shared among the members of a group that enable cooperation.

Writer as the founder of Lingkar Sosial Indonesia adjust theory social model since the establishment of the diffable organization in 2014, though without realizing it. Putnam and Fukuyama theory knowed by writer in 2015 when help college student study about investigation model in uncovering the hunt for endangered species in Kalimantan. Found the investigation process give many information fron network which be found in social capital, like strong bond (closest friend, co-worker, boss, and business partner), and weak bond (new friend, acquintances, third party relations, and so on).

Concocting Five Important Point of Social Capital

Back to social entrepreneurship, writer concocting elements of social capital to running Lingkar Sosial Indonesia economy program. The element is information, data, network, trust, and consistency. Leave from those five elements, without initial capital in the from of money and working tools, at now workshop diffable enterprise which formed by Lingkar Sosial in 2015 has developed with the assests of dozens of craftsmen, work tools, galleries, and business collaboration. The following are the details of the five elements and technical implementation:

1. Information, more on a system that regulates the delivery of information to the wider community.  In this case the Social Circle uses websites and social media as information funnels that have the most access for diffables of any variety. It is proven that this publication organization and social media inclusive organization is handled by a wheelchair user with celebral palsy who experiences kinetic and speech barriers.

2. Data, is source and menu of information which served. Lingkar Sosial in procession and presenting data submitted grade and product quality, production process, selling, and society education about disability or disability awarrenes.

3. Networks, relations of cooperation and friendship with visionary organizations in the field of diffable empowerment and entrepreneurship with diffability social bases. Lingkar Sosial limits relations with organizations, companies and government agencies that are the object of control.

4. Trust, is a bond born from ongoing collaboration that works. Trust also can be born from a good information system, accurate data, and good networks.

5. Consistency, is attitude decision, behavior, and commitment to information system, data accuration, networks, and ability to keep trust.

How to Bring In Money Capital and Working Tools by Means of Optimization of Social Capital?

The steps with concocting five elements of social capital above systematically, structured, and massive. Systematic is explanation and formulation in context which logic and measured until formed system that is comprehensive, intact, integrated, amd be able to explain a series of causes of certain objects. Whereas structured is carried out structured and arranged according to coordination series. While massive means carried out a wide scale and in congregation or together.

Start from information and data. Information that is systematic always connected with accurate data. Next, the search and processing of data and publication of information is carried out structurally. In the practice, can appointed communication interpreter. In processing data and information Lingkar Social working group, managed by the management of certain sector. So, consumer get accurate data and information that will born public issue and good support. For example in technique getting contribution scraps of cloth and sewing machine for working group. Public understand and trust if Lingkar Sosial is organization that is commitment to disability empowerment so that it deserves the support of tools and kinds of work materials, not some kind of basic food support.

Next is network, Lingkar Sosial is diffable organization with biggest network in East Java, especially in Malang, covers by Malang district, Malang City, and Batu City. The way pass network building systematically, structured, and massive. For example in 2016, Lingkar Sosial embrace the seniors of diffabel that build social movemenr that is featured Satu Misi menuju Malang Raya Ramah Difabel. This efforts succed that is marked with born Forum Malang Inklusi that now be deputy people that is connected diffable community wirh government to determinate policy implementation or regulation of disability rights.

In economi sector, in 2016 Lingkar Sosial Indonesia collaboration with until No Leprosy Remains (NLR) in project Development Working Group Entrepreneur Diffable in Malang. The impact that is excpet from this project is decreased number of uneployed diffable.

Transforming Entrepreneurial Mentality

The author sees equality increasingly open in all fields for diffables, including entrepreneurship. Especially in the context of diffables in the Malang region in the Lingkar Sosial network, about training, ongoing assistance until capital has been opened wide the way to access it. Without diffable collateral can access the Funds for Productive Economic Enterprises (UEP) and Joint Business Cooperatives (KUBE), without conditions the level of education of persons with disabilities can access training at the BLK (Training Center).

"The principle is that persons with disabilities are registered in the SIMPD or Disabled Persons Management Information System so that the fulfillment of disability rights is right on target," explained the companion of the East Java PPD Social Ministry, Titing Rara Wulansari. Therefore we collaborate with the Lingkar Sosial Indonesia to facilitate coordination in the field.

Closing this article, to respond to this good development is how the parties, in this case the Government, diffable organizations, the world of education, business people and other stakeholders encourage the transformation of the diffable paradigm from a charity-based disability concept to the concept of human right-based disability. In the future, the protection of diffable rights, especially in the economic field, will continue to be improved.  The UEP and KUBE programs are good for the economic empowerment of disabled people, but on the other hand we still have to continue to fight for the implementation of service equality in banks and other economic institutions.

Author: Ken Kerta

Editor: Ajiwan Arief

Translated by: Cakrahayu Arnavaning Gusti

Original Article: Meramu Modal Usaha sebagai Modal Sosial

Link of Original Article: https://www.lingkarsosial.org/meramu-modal-sosial-sebagai-modal-usaha/