In facing the ASEAN
Economic Community (AEC) 2015, Indonesia should prepare itself in various
aspects and fields in order to compete and be the main actor in the free market
among ASEAN countries. The fundamental thing that should be prepared by the
government is competent, reliable and skilled human resources.
The government through the
Ministry of Industry will continue to increase human resources in the industry
field in order to compete, even be the main player in AEC. Indonesia should not
only be a spectator or target market of industries of other countries because
it is considered potential as the most populous among the other ASEAN
countries, so that it becomes a challenges for Indonesia.
Ansari Bukhari, Secretary
General of the Ministry of Industry, in Jakarta, on Wednesday (July 2),
admitted that the competence of the workforce in the industry sector is still
low because the educational background is equal to junior high school or lower
than that, with the percentage of 60.77%. In fact, he said, the level of labor
productivity in Indonesia, which is calculated based on the gross domestic
product (GDP) per worker, is still very low.
According to him, labor
productivity in Indonesia is USD 9,500 per worker per year, and this figure is
still far below three ASEAN countries, namely Singapore, Malaysia, and
Thailand. In fact, labor productivity level in Indonesia is still below the
average of ASEAN countries which USD 10,700 per worker per year. “this
condition is our concern considering that implementation of AEC at the end of
2015, so the labor market in ASEAN will be open to all Southeast Asian
countries”. Ansari said.
Ansari admitted that this
must be anticipated by the government by providing integrated training so that
they can develop and so that productivity can be increased. The condition is
also a focus of attention of the government in facing AEC 2015, because at that
time the labor market will be open to all ASEAN countries, so that improvement
should necessarily be done in order to compete with workers from other
countries.
To that end, he said, the
Ministry of industry will do some anticipations, one of them is by setting up
and developing community collage (Akademi Komunitas) within the Ministry of
industry in order to meet the needs for workforce in the industrial sector.
Another important thing to consider in organizing the industrial community is
by facilitating the placement of graduates in industrial companies. This needs
to be done to transfer knowledge and use technology so that industry workers
can have good skill and can use the technology to support their performance
that will have an impact on productivity increase.
For that purpose, Ansari
said recently that the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Education and
Culture have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the establishment
and development of community college for the development of competent human
resources in the industrial sector. He explained that in Law No. 3/2014 on Industry,
there are 14 chapters which mandate the need for the development of competent
human resources in the industrial sector.
Therefore, he said, the
government is preparing a regulation on the implementation of development of
industrial workforce, among other, through competency-based vocational
education, industrial training, apprenticeship, and the application of a
competency certification for industrial workforce.
The MoU mentioned several
tasks of the, Ministry of Industry, among others, to facilitate the development
of community college as a local advantage of a region to community college
graduates in the Ministry of Industry in industrial companies. While, one of
the tasks of the Ministry of Education and Culture is to foster academic
training on the organization of community college within the Ministry of
Industry. (E)
Business News - July 4,
2014
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