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Entrepreneur Chandra Facilitates Indonesian Migrant Workers in Hong Kong Joint Ventures in Indonesia

DDHK.ORG - Successful entrepreneur Indonesia di Hong Kong, Tjhin Wahyudi Chandra, facilitated Indonesian migrant workers to conduct joint ventures in the country. A total of 20 migrant workers, including this entrepreneur who owns dozens of shops and counters for the Chandra Remittance remittance service, joined the business.

"I want to change the profession of TKI (Indonesian workers) into traders, so that when they stop being TKI they will have preparations to start a new business in their hometown," said the man who is usually called "Pak Chandra", Monday (13/9). /2021).

To realize this desire, since Hong Kong has imposed restrictions on people entering and leaving the former British colony due to the Covid-19 pandemic in mid-June 2020, Chandra has created the "I Must Be Boss" group, which contains 197 people. The majority, PMI and former PMI Hong Kong. "Unintentionally, coincidentally the date and month coincided with the commemoration of the Birthday of Pancasila, June 1," he said.

Chandra believes that Indonesian migrant workers can change their profession to become entrepreneurs and then become bosses for their businesses. This is based on his life experience, before becoming an entrepreneur, he also worked as an Indonesian migrant worker or used to be called TKI, Indonesian workers.

"I'm a former TKI and I have little experience associating with TKI for almost 25 years," said Chandra.

After more than a year, what Chandra has been working on is starting to take shape. On Saturday, September 11, 2021, a joint venture of 20 Indonesian migrant workers and former Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong in the form of an aquaponics business began. Each person invested HK$3,000, equivalent to Rp. 5,5 million. To run this business, they appointed 5 people who are domiciled in Indonesia to sit on the management team.

Last Saturday, the groundbreaking ceremony was held and a prayer event was held at the business location. "Alhamdulillah, today, Saturday, September 11, 2021, at 14:00, in Sumber Rejo Gringging Village, Kediri Regency, East Java, the groundbreaking has begun to start working on the production of the aquaponics business," said Ruli Fahrizal, one of the members. the joint venture management team.

The plan is that in this location with an available land area of ​​about 2.600 square meters, an aquaponics production site will be built. The long-term plan is that this business location will be used as a place for aquaponics education tourism. The investors also plan to expand this business to various other locations in Indonesia.

“I Have To Be The Boss” A Different Business Group

Wina, one of the Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong who joined this joint investment, believes that Chandra's “I Must Be Boss” business group is different from other similar groups. He admitted that Chandra's existence as a successful businessman and having many businesses in Hong Kong is a guarantee that this business group is far from deceitful.

He admitted that he had never joined a business group or a business group that used to target Indonesian migrant workers abroad. “Learning from my friends' experiences so far, any business or business that involves unknown people usually sinks and has no jungle, aka fails. Many end up feeling cheated materially. Time was wasted,” said Wina.

“The I Must Be Boss group is different, that's why I dared to join. Apart from being managed by seniors in the field of trade and business, both foreign and domestic, Mr. Chandra deserves to be a mentor for us akita, TKI abroad, because of his success that has been seen and recognized by the government, both Indonesia and other countries such as Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Taiwan," said the PMi from Kediri.

With the start of the joint venture that she is participating in, Wina hopes that this business will have good results and be beneficial for many people. Especially, it can be developed again to invite other PMIs to join in the next stage. "So that they do not slip into the abyss of fake businesses that target many Indonesian workers," he said. [DDHKNews]

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