<![CDATA[Returning Indonesian migrant workers may establish micro-enterprises after overseas employment, but initial training and business assistance do not establish whether these activities remain operational. This 2024 follow-up community service program, implemented by Universitas Muhammadiyah Bengkulu and PCIM Hong Kong, documented enterprise status and financial-management practices among beneficiaries of a 2023 incubation initiative. Monitoring combined reviews of original business plans, field observations, interviews, four focus group discussions, and corrective mentoring. Of 35 original beneficiaries, 28 (80.0%) were reached and evaluated; the remaining seven had unverified enterprise status. The monitoring report describes approximately 33% of evaluated enterprises as continuing broadly as planned, 36% as having adapted their activities, and 31% as discontinued. These percentages are rounded summaries rather than independently verified beneficiary counts. Qualitative evidence suggested that basic transaction recording was more consistently practiced than separation of business and household cash. Participants with ongoing enterprises described supplementary household-income and social-participation roles, but the report provided no complete turnover, profit, or income dataset. The follow-up identified a need for repeated enterprise-status checks, feasible market assessment, simple cash-management tools, and sustained mentoring. The findings describe early post-return enterprise trajectories, not causal effects of the incubation program or verified long-term economic outcomes.]]>
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