Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews eISSN: 2395-6518, Vol 7, No 3, 2019, pp 162-168 https://doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2019.7325 162 |www.hssr.in ©Authors ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION TO IMPROVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTENTION Fatwa Tentama 1* , Surahma Asti Mulasari 2 , Subardjo 3 , Santi Widiasari 4 1 Faculty of Psychology, 2 Faculty of Public Health, 3 Faculty of Law, 4 Faculty of Education, Ahmad Dahlan University, Indonesia 55164, Peoples of Indonesia Email: * fatwa.tentama@psy.uad.ac.id Article History: Received on 10 th February, Revised on 5th April, Published on 19 th April 2019 Abstract Purpose: This research aims at finding out the effect of entrepreneurship education on people’s entrepreneurship intention. Methodology: The subject of the research includes 18 persons of Wedomartani village, Sleman regency, Yogyakarta with the characteristics of having no jobs, having been married, and male or female incapable of handling waste for entrepreneurship. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling. The data analysis technique uses a Wilcoxon test. Results: The result of the analysis is Z = -2.102 and p = 0.018 (1-tailed), with p<0.05, which means there is a significant difference between the people's entrepreneurship intention before and after entrepreneurship education. So entrepreneurship education is effective in improving the people's entrepreneurship intention. Implications: People’s intention to convert waste into marketable goods is still low so that the waste spoils the environment. Therefore, entrepreneurship education is needed to rouse their intention in doing it. Keywords: Education, Entrepreneurship, Intention, Handling Waste, Data Analysis INTRODUCTION The issue of entrepreneurship is an important issue in an economy of developing country like Indonesia. Indonesia's open unemployment in February 2016 reached 7.02 million people (https://www.bps.go.id). Improving the people's entrepreneurship intention becomes a solution to reduce the level of unemployment for the people are expected to educate entrepreneurs, who can manage their own business. They need encouraging and motivating for entrepreneurship intention. Entrepreneurship is an n important element in running business, i.e., the ability to see business opportunities and take advantages of it. The existence of abundant waste, which spoils the environment is a problem to solve and an opportunity for the people to handle it to make it marketable products. Nevertheless, if there is no intention of the people to do it, they will not realize it. An intention is one's desire to carry out a business, and it is a result of his awareness and judgment of his behavior.(S. C. Parker, 2004) Intention is related to how hard one tries to understand a thing, how well one plans a program, and how great one tries an effort.(R. D. Hisrich, M. P. Peters, and D. A. Shepherd, 2005) Entrepreneurship intention is a preliminary and long-term process in carrying out a business.(S. H. Lee, and P. K. Wong, 2004) It is the entrepreneurship intention, which initiates the running of a business.(A. M. Rasli and S. U. R. Khan, S.Malekifar, and S. Jabeen, 2013) Entrepreneurship intention as individual's desire to run a business by creating a new product for business and individuals risk-taking is determined by the individual himself.(T. Ramayah and Z. Harun, 2005)According to Krueger(1993)entrepreneurship, intention reflects the commitment to begin running a new business, and it is a central issue to understand an entrepreneurship process for running a business. Entrepreneurship intention shows one's desire to run a business.(N. F. Krueger, M. D.Reilly and A. L. Casrud., 2000) The understanding of entrepreneurship intention may reflect one’s tendency to run a real business.(M. Jenkins and G. Johnson, 1997)Entrepreneurship intention is very important to implement in the people to catch opportunities and to run the business. That is why there are researches in this field such as done by (C. Gerry, C. Susana, and F. Nogueira, 2008), (DALIR et al., 2014), (L. Galloway, S. Kelly and W. Keogh, 2006;H. S. Rasheed, 2000) Observation and interview results show that the people's entrepreneurship intention to start running a business in the waste converting into charcoal briquettes, liquid organic fertilizers and plant growing media was low. There should be efforts to improve the entrepreneurship intention to run the business one of them is through entrepreneurship education. Entrepreneurship education is an entrepreneurship competence transfer, which is done structurally and formally to improve an individual's skills, concept, and awareness in entrepreneurship. (F. Alberti, S. Sciascia, and A. Poli., 2004) Entrepreneurship education is an important factor to rouse and develops one's entrepreneurship, and the spirit of