Skills for the Indonesian Maritime Sector: The Strategic Involvement of Industries

Indonesia has demonstrated its leadership at the global level when it held the chairship of the G20 by successfully hosting a series of paramount meetings in 2022 to better shape the global economy to become more resilient after being hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and Indonesia continues to show a strong leadership as the current chair of ASEAN in 2023. The last two decades, Indonesia have witnessed an exceptional economic growth and seen more than half of the population rising out of poverty. The nation’s ambitions are set on continuing the growth trajectory to becoming a high-income country by 2045.

In this context, the Skills for Prosperity Programme in Indonesia, funded by UK Government, sets out to improve skills development policies and systems to respond effectively to the skills demands with a focus on the growing maritime sector, taking targeted action in promoting skills for employment and decent jobs for young women and men, including disadvantaged groups. This effort is also aligned with the Indonesian Government’s effort to reinforce vocational education in which the President has issued a Presidential Decree No.68 Year 2022 on Revitalization of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), which will be implemented through a national strategy led by Coordinating Ministry of Human Development and Culture (CMHDC).

As an island nation, the maritime sector has a critical bearing on Indonesia’s economic performance and has been identified as a priority sector by government in the Global Maritime Fulcrum master plan in 2014. The maritime sector also been selected as a focus for this programme due to the UK’s expertise and reputation in this field.

The specific purpose of this activity are as follows:

• Sharing key findings from the sub-sectoral skills analysis for the shipbuilding, international logistics and seafaring maritime sub-sectors.
• Launching of the sub-sectoral skills analysis reports
• Establishing the priorities of the sub-sectoral skills analysis that could be taken forward through the establishment of sectoral skills committees under the TKNV structure.