Forbes Indonesia’s Local Champions highlights and celebrates the success of entrepreneurs and
business leaders who have built successful business from the rural and regions. In this edition
we feature a young entrepreneur from Yogyakarta who runs a fast growing beauty and skincare
business, the next generation of tea business from Solo who is now trying to educate and tap
the market on premium tea, Sidoarjo-based seed producer Bisi International who controls the
biggest market share in hybrid maize seed and exporting horticultural seed, Bali local football
team who recently went public, and a Cornell University graduate who prefers to start a coco
sugar export oriented business from Purwokerto. These entrepreneurs and companies should
be a source of inspiration, as not only they help create employment and local economy to
thrive, but also manage to create successful business in a more challenging manner.
As a big country with geographical challenge, development equality has been one of the
country’s problems and also one of the top priorities of President Joko Widodo agenda in his
second term program. In the past five years of his leadership, the government has been laying
down the fundamentals needed for economy and business to thrive in the rural through
infrastructure development, and more importantly by upgrading human resources through
vocational school program and job training. Digitalization also offers another opportunity.
Thus, we wish to have more entrepreneurs and companies in our future Local Champions list.