"I come from a poor family in the village of Kalimundu, Gadingharjo, Bantul, Yogyakarta. My father was farmer, yutun, uneducated, have no fields, only relying on the messenger. I know why my parents were poor. We are sorry for stupid."
Conditions that strengthen resolve the eldest of two brothers. "I had to learn, not to be tired of learning." However, learning without the cost? "Ah, that's nonsense."
Be a partner-Boniyem Ngadiman this since junior high school to learn and earn money by selling anything. When go to school in high school 17 Bantul, he also sells chickens. It works while you learn because learning time less than hours worked.
Initially, Dalyono not know that is the essence of entrepreneurship, tips and skills that educated people then talked about lately. "There's no way I was a student, no charge. Right out of high school, I went to Jakarta. I think, so successful people have to go to Jakarta, "said the man to Jakarta armed with 25 pounds of rice and a little money. He sells chickens in the capital.
Money was gone within a week. No ride, he was sleeping under a bridge in the area of Penjaringan. For everyday eating, he became a parking. He lived in Jakarta Ramanujan are displaced about seven months.
Dalyono was sick, but he refused to return to Yogyakarta. The reason, shame it has not been able to send money back home. He was not taken to Bantul, but incorporated into the Children's Social Development of Youth in Sleman. Nearly a year at the orphanage, he was then employed in the drawing Summer Gallery, furniture companies.
Moving around
By the boss, Dalyono considered can not draw. He then moved to work from one company to another over the past five years.
Although sedentary work, he still worked at the company that the scope of its furniture. "In many companies, I was trained discipline, growing interest in learning any more," he said.
He then determined to have a furniture company. Furniture business was pioneered and developed little by little. In fact, the company also became one of the first suppliers assume Dalyono boss can not draw.
One time he met Ir Ciputra, entrepreneurs who have an obsession entrepreneurship as the key to the progress of the nation. At that time, Dalyono be champions of community development for 25 young men who cultivated through the furniture business furniture Mataram. They are friends in his village, Kalimundu.
Initially a bit difficult because generally they are not background carpenter. Thanks to his hard efforts, Dalyono was chosen as a young pioneer national level. He was considered to participate empower the poor.
Bantul Regent (then) Idham Samawi and finance Dalyono to join management courses in the Graduate Program of Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in cooperation with educational institutions Ciputra and UGM. "I learned firsthand how to change the 'trash' into 'gold'," he said.
After entrepreneurship courses at GMU, Dalyono developing product innovations. End of May 2006, he discovered batik furniture innovation. With it, he could follow up exhibitions abroad.
All that success makes Dalyono think that his life is also useful to others. So, in addition to seeking furniture batik employs 160 people in various cities as a supplier of furniture (including Jepara, Waterford, and Sukoharjo), he collaborated with the University of Ciputra Entrepreneurship in Jakarta seeking five courses and training institutes.
The effort was later expanded again with a microfinance institution. Agency also received help from the government amounting to Rp 250 million, in addition to assistance from the Ministry of Youth and Sports. Consumption of export
His office occupies the space of six SD Inpres closed because no students. Since three years ago Dalyono renting the place of Rp 200,000 per year. Rents are going up next year to $ 3.5 million.
Classrooms arranged in such a way as to be worthy of the office until the space to create batik designs with a number of employees assisted students Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta.
Buyers of furniture products batiknya generally foreigners. He took advantage of-mouth promotion through tourist guides. "I have some friends tour guide. Those who introduce my products to foreign visitors, other than through the exhibition, "said Dalyono that often follow a few exhibitions in Jakarta.
Batiknya furniture products are exported to some countries, like France, Holland, and India. Each month he was exporting about two containers. Turnover per month of approximately USD 700 million.
By employing 20 people in his shop, Dalyono reward Rp 25,000-Rp 30,000 per day per worker. "That's not a huge amount, but the important benefit to others," said Dalyono who also pursue trinkets, ranging from footwear to the day's wood bracelets consumer hired from India.
No heroics interpret the concept of entrepreneurship, Dalyono believes entrepreneurship is not knowledge, but practice. "I'm learning, keep learning while continuing to work well."
Because of that, he also lectures at the Faculty of Economics, University of Widya Mataram, Yogyakarta, in addition to learning Mandarin, English and French through the course.
However he was pleased because her brother, Purwanto (21), did not like him. The brother right after high school can work in oil companies in Riau. Ngadiman, the father, was proud of the achievement Dalyono deems capable of "lifting" the family.
Growing furniture business that he pioneered to make Dalyono increasingly convinced that entrepreneurship can indeed be formed through education in schools. However, he added, which then act more is experience, the willingness of someone trying hard, and self-discipline.
"The soul was formed through the entrepreneurial willingness to keep learning and always keen to see opportunities," said the man who was born June 20, 1980 which has been proven that a business can be created with a willingness to learn, even though a person to start from zero: zero capital, zero relation, zero education , and zero skill
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