Indonesia and Australia to explore partnership in enhancing digital skills
The fast growing of digital technology requires advanced technical capacity to adapt the changes. Indonesia and Australia are exploring a partnership to strengthen digital skills of Indonesia’s technical vocational education and training (TVET).
Through the collaboration with Government of Australia, we aim at improving our TVET quality, particularly in ICT skills, to present competent, skilled, competitive human resources in accordance with the needs of industry as well as growing new entrepreneurs in the ICT field."
Wikan Sakarinto, Director General of Vocational Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology
Wikan Sakarinto, Director General of Vocational Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, stated that Indonesia is still building its integrated digital infrastructure as a key to catch up with industrial revolution 4.0. “However, improving quality of digital skills is no less important since the demand and supply of digital talents remain unbalanced. Through the collaboration with Government of Australia, we aim at improving our TVET quality, particularly in ICT skills, to present competent, skilled, competitive human resources in accordance with the needs of industry as well as growing new entrepreneurs in the ICT field,” he said.
We look forward to further enhance Indonesia’s human capital potential, by sharing our own experience to develop the digital skills component into Indonesia."
Rebecca Hall, Victoria Commissioner to Southeast Asia
The ILO has also recognized the increasing demand of digital skills in the world of work. Initiatives have been taken at global, regional and national levels to prepare its member States to face the fast changing of employment and business nature.
I hope this event could set as a good start for future collaborations between TVET Institutions of both countries."
Michiko Miyamoto, ILO Country Director for Indonesia and Timor-Leste
Australia has heavily invested in online learning over the past decades. Therefore, the seminar presents good practices from Victorian Technical and Further Education (TAFE) in building distance and digital learning system as an effective way to deliver training and education to broader students at less cost. Another possible collaboration discussed includes the possibility of students from Indonesia to access the existing online learning platforms and contents from TAFE institutions in Victoria.
For further information please contact:
C. Hirania WiryastiILO’s Officer on Digital Skills and Distance Learning
Email: wiryasti@ilo.org
Gita F. Lingga
ILO’s Communications Officer
Email: gita@ilo.org
Ayunda Pratama
ILO’s Communications Officer for Skills Development
Email: pratama@ilo.org