Ade Rukmadi, the owner of tile shops He owns a number of tile shops which generate sales over  hundred million rupiahs, but he is still  a humble person. That is the figure of Ade Rukmadi, 42 years old, the owner of Pusaka Keramik Shop located in Pasar Kamis Village, Tangerang. His success didn’t come suddenly. Ade faced a harsh life as a street child during his childhood due to his parents’ poverty. He also ever worked as an illegal parking officer in order to get money. It was a good... More detail

Known as one of the most popular meals in Indonesia, Tofu, becomes source of income for Eti Nurhayati. Her decision to manage a tofu factory which was inherited from her parents brought an enormous influence to her welfare. Armed with her experience as a teacher, Eti Nurhayati, 53 years old, has never given up to develop her business. In 1989, Eti left her job as a teacher in one senior high school in Pekanbaru, Sumatra Island. She fulfilled her parent request to continue their tofu factory located... More detail

Together with her friend in 1999, she started the business with Rp 12 million cash investment (approximately USD 1,700). They used Rp 1 million for renting a mushroom farmhouse and the rest for purchasing raw materials. Unlike the other beginners who bought the cultivation medium at the early step, they made the mushroom media directly, assisted by 3 workers learning from their neighbors’ experience… And the result? They failed because 50% of the media was bad. This failure, however, did not... More detail

Mr. Suarbawa has been a loyal customer of BRI Unit Sukowati since 2004, though he had been BRI Unit Ubud’s customer before. He decided to move to BRI Unit Sukowati due to the distance—his village is closer to BRI Unit Sukowati than to BRI Unit Ubud. He said, “The closer the location, the faster the service.” When he started taking loan from BRI Unit Ubud in 1998, it was only IDR 20 million. At present, he is taking working capital loan from BRI Unit Sukowati as much as IDR 500 million—the... More detail

“Before I started the business, I remember borrowing some money from BRI Unit Ubud in 1974. BRI Unit Ubud lent me Rp 300 thousand at that time. I used Rp 175 thousand of it to buy a piece of land in Mas and the rest was for running the business.” As he wanted to develop the business, he built “Bali Art” on the land in November 1979. From 1980 to 1985 he was a retailer; but since then he decided to export his collections due to high demands from foreigners visiting his shop. The business grew... More detail