Project Brief: Skills development and responsible business conduct in Indonesia

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Project details

  • Duration: 3 April 2023 - 31 May 2025
  • Development partner(s): Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) – Government of Japan
  • Project code: RAS/23/52/JPN
  • Location: Indonesia
  • Contact: Dede Sudono, Project Coordinator. Email: [email protected]

Key industry facts

  • Relatively small but nationally prioritised industry
  • Heavy domestic market focus, but with aspirations for GSC integration
  • Key products: Home appliances (local), digital electronics (joint ventures) and computers
  • Key foreign investors: Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore and increasingly China
  • 260.000 workers, 64 per cent female in computer, electric and optical products and 40 per cent female in electrical equipment (2019)
  • US$7.8 billion total export value
  • 13.5 per cent Share of total Foreign Direct Investment (2017)

Project objective

  • Provide skills development to enhance workers’ responsiveness and productivity for structural transformation to a sustainable economy, including respect for human rights, which is consistent with the country’s development priorities.
  • Promote responsible business conduct including corporate activities in harmony with the country’s development priorities and respect for the principles of international labour standards.
  • Promote an environment to contribute towards a transition to resilient supply chains from the perspectives of trade and investment.

Expected outcomes

  • Enhance the capabilities of ILO constituents for job creation in the electrical and electronics industry, and through skills upgrading enhance workers’ responsiveness and productivity for structural transformation to a sustainable economy, including respect for human rights.
  • Strengthen institution and tripartite collaboration to promote responsible business principles and international labour standards, and sustainable corporate activities in harmony with the country’s development priorities.

Project partners

  • Ministry of Manpower & other ministries/agencies
  • Industries, Employer & Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs)
  • Trade unions
  • Japanese constituents and industry stakeholders

Target beneficiaries

  • Employers in the electrical and electronics sector and its supply chain in Indonesia.
  • Workers employed in the electrical and electronics sector and its supply chain in Indonesia.
  • Students and future workforce transitioning to the electrical and electronics sector and supply chain in Indonesia from public technical and vocational training institutions.
  • Public technical and vocational training institutions.
  • Policy makers.

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