162 Jurnal Pendidikan Teknologi dan Kejuruan,Vol. 26, No. 2, October 2020 STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPING INTEREST OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP THROUGH A CULINARY BUSINESS MANAGEMENT COURSE Titin Hera Widi Handayani 1 , Sutriyati Purwanti 2 , Dewi Eka Murniati 3 , and Safitri Yosita Ratri 4 1,2,3 Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 4 University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia E-mail: titin_hwh@uny.ac.id ABSTRACT The objectives of this study were: (1) to determine the entrepreneurial interest of Diploma students in Culinary Engineering in Culinary Business Management (CBM) course, (2) to formulate strategies for developing students’ entrepreneurial interest through the CBM course as recommendations for lectures in the next period. This ex post facto research with a descriptive approach was carried out in February to July 2019 in the Diploma Study Program of Culinary Engineering, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (UNY). The population of the study consisted of 40 students who took CBM in the odd semester of the 2018/2019 academic year. A purposive sampling technique was employed while the questionnaire was used in the data collection. Quantitative descriptive was used to analyze the data. The results show that: (1) Entrepreneurial interest of Diploma students of Culinary Engineering in the CBM course is 40% in the Very High category and 60% in the High category, (2) there are four strategies for developing students’ entrepreneurial interest through the CBM course, namely SO (Strength-Opportunity) strategy: while WO (Weakness-Opportunity) strategy, ST (Weakness-Opportunity) strategy, and WT (Weakness-Threat) strategy. The benefits of this study are firstly, for students, it investigates students’ entrepreneurial interests through learning CBM, for education staff, it examines the effectiveness of learning CBM in forming students’ entrepreneurial interests, and for educational institutions, it is an effort to evaluate and recommend learning CBM to form students’ entrepreneurship. Keywords: culinary business management course, development strategy, entrepreneurship interest INTRODUCTION Entrepreneurship education for the young generation is important for several reasons. Firstly, there are currently too many job seekers and too few job creators and vacancies. Recent data from the Central Bureau of Statistics shows that the unemployment level in Indonesia is still high, with 5.13%, although there is a 0.2% decrease compared to last year [1]. The irony lies in that unemployment is dominated by graduates of vocational high school [2] in the first place (8.92%), followed by university graduates (mainly from the vocational degree) with 7.92%. Secondly, the total growth of entrepreneurs will result in wider social welfare. This is because entrepreneurs are more independent in running their business, hardly affected by inflation, and able to create jobs for the community. Thirdly, as a country with abundant natural resources, it is crucial that Indonesia has entrepreneur human resources to manage the natural resources for the welfare of the nation and state. True entrepreneurs not only possess creative- innovative senses, but they are also lifelong seekers of opportunity who are willing to take measured risks and believe that customer service is the key to success. With the entrepreneurship mindset, character, and skills, the youth of Indonesia will no longer become dependent on any jobs or rely on the government or other people to prosper. One of the benchmarks of the success of a country’s economy is the quantitative number of business owners in the country. Received December 31, 2020; Revised September 9, 2020, 2019; Accepted September 21, 2020 Jurnal Pendidikan Teknologi dan Kejuruan, Vol. 26, No. 2, October 2020, 162-172 ISSN: 0854-4735, accredited by KEMENRISTEKDIKTI, Decree No: 51/E/KPT/2019 DOI: 10.21831/jptk.v26i2.29232