Promoting collaboration between TVET institutions and industries in Indonesia

To build a generation of Indonesia who are competent, competitive and able to keep up with the fast changing of the world of work, a strong partnership and synergy is needed between the educational and training institutions and industries. Through this partnership and synergy, it is expected that the competence of Indonesian workers will continue to be maintained and in accordance with the needs of industries.

Therefore, to further promote decent work for all in Indonesia, the ILO was launching three videos documenting three best practices featuring supporting and complementing partnership between educational/training institutions and industries as ways to prepare and create a skilled and ready-for-work generation in Indonesia.

The videos capture best practices conducted by SMK Mitra Industri MM2100. Located at the industrial zone od Cikarang, Bekasi, the vocational school has developed four types of partnerships with the industries, aimed to not only improve its students’ working skills but also to enhance the capabilities of its teachers and instructors according to the changing needs of the industries.

The second best practices were documented from Politeknik APP Jakarta. Using a plug and play method, this polytechnic has developed a strong synergy with the industries to ensure the absorption of polytechnic graduates by the industries. This learning method presents an atmosphere that is close to the real working environment and industrial activity.

The third video highlights an effort taken by PT Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (PT TMMIN) to build a work-ready generation. Through its learning centre in Karawang, West Java, they have conducted an industry-based apprenticeship since 2016. For this year they would train around 400 apprentices; and will increase the number of its apprentices to 700 by next year.

“Through these videos, we hope to raise the awareness about the benefits of apprenticeship for skills development and to emphasize the important collaboration between vocational schools/institutions with the industries. We also hope that best practices demonstrated in the videos can be replicated by vocational schools/institutions and industries to ensure link and match between skills taught at vocational schools/institutions with skills needed by the industries,” said Dede Sudono, ILO’s National Coordinator on Apprenticeship.

We hope that best practices demonstrated in the videos can be replicated by vocational schools/institutions and industries to ensure link and match between skills taught at vocational schools/institutions with skills needed by the industries."

Dede Sudono, ILO’s National Coordinator on Apprenticeship

The launch was conducted at the end of June at the National Library of Jakarta, attended by more than 150 invitees from various organizations including enterprises, vocational schools, training providers, trade unions, vocational students and so forth. The videos highlight collaborations conducted between vocational institutions as well as actions taken by the industry itself to generate skilled workers through its training centres.

These videos were produced by the ILO through the joint UN project titled “Integrated Solutions Platforms: Vocational Education Training (TVET) – Industry Collaboration”. The Project was aimed to promote industry-TVET Collaboration to reduce skills mismatch and promote cost-sharing of the delivery of TVET between the government and the private sector.