Industrialization has had a negative impact on emerging countries such as Indonesia, leading
to the emergence of many unresolved socioeconomic issues. The government and business
sectors, which are supposed to be capable of resolving societal challenges, have failed to do so
consistently. The dissatisfaction and relative inadequacy of the public and private sectors to
deal with social problems makes social entrepreneurship a foreseen solution to resolve social
issues in Indonesia. Despite its importance, Indonesia's number of entrepreneurs, particularly
social entrepreneurs, remains well below that of other countries such as the United States and
China. As a result, this study was carried out to determine the factors that influence the
formation of social entrepreneurship intention by considering prosocial motivation and
creativity components in social work. Purposive sampling was used to recruit 158 students in
Indonesia for the study. SmartPLS 3.0 is used to evaluate the data using the PLS-SEM
approach. Prosocial motivation and creativity in social work both positively and significantly
affect social entrepreneurial intention. Moreover, creativity in social work mediates a partial
relationship between prosocial motivation and social entrepreneurial intention