Indonesia, the largest economy in Southeast Asia, is still lacking skilled workers, particularly in the IT sectors compared to other ASEAN countries, an executive says.
PT. IBM Indonesia's country manager for global business services, Widita P. Sardjono, told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday that while the quality of Indonesian IT workers was unquestionable, Indonesia was still lacking in terms of the numbers.
"We are still lacking in terms of the so-called [skilled IT] workers compared to Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore," he said on the sidelines of a memorandum of understanding signing ceremony between the IT company and Indonesia's Bina Nusantara University in Jakarta.
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The new agreement stipulates that PT IBM Indonesia will provide new human capital management software which will allow the university’s employees to have personal online administration.
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Widita added that based on government data, only about 2 percent of the country’s 240 million population have attended university.
"Furthermore, 30 percent of Indonesians who went to university are still unemployed. I think that is why IT companies must collaborate with many universities to increase the quantity of skilled alumni," he said.
Earlier this year, National Development Planning Minister Armida Alisjahbana said that the government aimed to cut the current unemployment rate of 6.56 percent to 5-6 percent in 2014 and to create 3-4 million new job opportunities per year by 2025.
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