AARON ANNAR: Young Entrepreneur Who Chooses Going To Sulbar

As high as soared, subsided to the ground as well. Perhaps the proverb is a place to describe the figure of Muhammad Aaron Annar Sampetoding, Vice Chairman of the Association of Young Indonesian Entrepreneurs (HIPMI) of DKI Jakarta.

The man who was born February 18, 1982 is now planning to return home, build his area in West Sulawesi. The plan he chose the political path of the 2019 election to return to the land of his ancestors. "I want to bring the national network I have to my parents' village," said a graduate of the University of Technology Brisbane-Australia 2003 when talking with Sulbarkita.com in Jakarta, Saturday, April 21, 2018.

Aaron possessed Sulbar's condensed blood from his father, Annar Salahuddin Sampetoding, who is none other than a commissioner of Sulwood Group and Siner Group. The company is engaged in business license utilization of forest products, property, and general trade. Annar is the son of Amalia Ambo Caca Dg Magassing, a woman from Sendana, Majene District.

Amalia was married to the first forest concessionaire in Indonesia Puang Atto Siner Reysen Sampetoding. The grandfather is widely known for managing the forest area from North Mamuju to Central Sulawesi. The childhood of Aaron was much spent in Sulbar. "I was taught the Mandar language by a great-grandmother from the maternal line called Manikam. He is a traditional Puttada (Kingdom of Sendana). "

Although born from a family of businessmen, Aaron is not a person who just enjoy the results of the sweat of parents. He continues to pioneer a business career in forest concessions from lower levels.

Initially Aaron became a member of the Indonesian Forest Entrepreneurs Association (APHI) in 2005. From this APHI Aaron expanded the network through the HIPMI organization. Incidentally HIPMI is holding a national deliberation in Makassar in 2011. That's when Aaron desperate to apply to HIPMI members of Central Jakarta. "At first nothing I knew (at HIPMI Central Jakarta). It's really from scratch, "he said.

Strong business instincts and the knowledge gained abroad, make Aaron did not take long align with young entrepreneurs Capital City. In 2011, he is also the Chairman of the Compartment of Property Division, followed by a year later to become Chairman of Infrastructure and Property, and in 2014 was elected Chairman of HIPMI Central Jakarta.

Strategic position makes Aaron more confident. Moreover, he managed to open new insights of young entrepreneurs through grand activities such as a talk show themed The Role of Young Entrepreneurs for Clean Energy Indonesia at Ritz Carlton, Pacific Place, in 2015. And Financial Literacy Day Seminar at Paramadina Graduate School, SCBD, South Jakarta in 2016.

"With this seminar, local young entrepreneurs can see another business gap in renewable energy. No longer (wearing) horse spectacles by looking for big capital first, "he said. "Now also many local entrepreneurs set up creative industry startup in the digital world. They used to be a lot of contractors. "

The idea run by the majority of young entrepreneurs in Jakarta made Aaron get a high bargaining position at HIPMI. He also entered the stock election chairman of HIPMI DKI Jakarta in 2017. But unfortunately he lost, only 13 votes from Afifuddin Suhaeli Kalla who later became Ketum HIPMI DKI Jakarta. The nephew of Vice President Jusuf Kalla then entrusted the position of Vice Chairman of HIPMI DKI to Aaron.

Aaron hopes his return to Sulbar could have a positive impact on entrepreneurship in the area. He considers Sulbar has considerable potential to be developed, ranging from crops, sea, trade, to local wisdom.

But the problem, says Aaron, lies in the infrastructure that has not supported economic access there, such as transportation is still minimal. Even so with qualified universities, especially those synchronized with vocational institutions, and integrating with the industry. So that Sulbar scholars can not be directly absorbed in the world of work.

He hopes that all problems can be solved when it comes to the political arena in West Sulawesi, by fighting for the regional economy at the national level. "I want to build a culture of entrepreneurship, access to capital and markets, and the existence of youth in the digital world Sulbar," said Aaron. (TSM)

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