Natural Resources of Simalungun Regency for the Development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises POLTAK SINAGA 1 ,DANIEL CASSA AGUSTINUS 2 , DARSONO NABABAN 3, ADE PUTRA F SINAGA 4 WENNY YULIANITA SINAGA 5 1 Professor of Management, Universitas Pelita Harapan Jakarta /UISU Medan, INDONESIA 2 Universitas Pelita Harapan Jakarta, INDONESIA 3 Universitas Timor, INDONESIA 4 Universitas Prima Indonesia, INDONESIA 5 Health Office of Pakpak Bharat Regency & Royal Prima Hospital /Universitas Prima Medan, INDONESIA Abstract: The Regency that rich in the natural resources needs many stake holders to attract the investors to open new enterprises or collaborate the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). A map out procedure was carried ou to seek the natural resources as backbone of community development and business growth in Simalungun Regency of North Sumatra Province of Indonesia. Data collection was made by seeking the data of official documents and studies reports. Data obtained revealed that Simalungun Regency in 2019 and 2020 has a great economic growth in agriculture. It found that the sector of forestry, agriculture and fisheries in 2019 increases 6.15 % and in 2020 it grew 9 % . Beside it has registered 1,200 SMEs, it will make the increase of SMEs whenever the Agropolitan Development Plan set up within 5 years. Simalungun Regency has very huge natural resources that needed to be developed as an agropolitan area to support the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Keywords: agropolitan; Simalungun Regency; Enterprises; economic growth; business ; incomes Received: January 3, 2021. Revised: March 3, 2021. Accepted: March 4, 2021. Published: March 5, 2021. 1. Introduction Natural resources are the big backbones for economic growth and new emerging the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Simalungun Regency. Viewing from the patterns of land use and livelihoods of the population, the Simalungun Regency could be described as area of rice fields. It has quite large land and most of the people in this Simalungun Regency still rely on the agricultural sector such as fisheries and livestock produces [1]. Refers to the natural resources and environment, the Simalungun Regency could have a good position [2] for business growth in future. The economic competitiveness of the Simalungun Regency increases if a map of natural resources set up better with the construction of physical infrastructure that still in a weight value of 0.221 [3]; it also has the regional economy with an assessment weight of 0.199. Increasing the Simalungun Regency also need the human resources improvement [4]. Potential natural resources of Simalungun Regency which is part of the area at a cross position in the West Pacific Trench; it is geographically located between 02036'- 03018 'North Latitude and 98032'-99035' East Longitude [5]. Natural resources with many hot springs in Simalungun Regency; they are scatered in Kawah Putih Tinggi Raja, is precisely located in Silau Kahean WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on BUSINESS and ECONOMICS DOI: 10.37394/23207.2021.18.55 Poltak Sinaga, Daniel Cassa Agustinus, Darsono Nababan, Ade Putra F. Sinaga, Wenny Yulianita Sinaga E-ISSN: 2224-2899 543 Volume 18, 2021