Indonesia is in dire need of 9 million digital talent proficient in digital-related job roles. The Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Keminfo) has created more than a hundred program initiatives to accommodate this movement.
According to the Head of HRD Center for ICT Profession & HR Certification of Keminfo, Hedi M. Idris, preparing digital talents is one of the President’s mandates, which has become the current focus of Keminfo. Therefore, they initiate many education and training programs to develop digital talent from basic, intermediate, to advance digital skills.
The ministry offers three methods for fostering digital abilities depending on individual expertise. The first approach is called Basic Digital Skills. It aims to educate the general public about digital literacy and improve their ability to stop the spread of harmful information.
The second is intermediate digital skill training, designed to enhance technical level competitiveness in the digital area. Although accessible to everyone, it mainly caters to professionals and recent grads. There is also the Advanced Intensive Program for leaders in the government, private, and academic sectors.
“Our programs aim to improve professionalism, productivity, and competitiveness by competency-based training and development system of digital talent management. Furthermore, it establishes the ecosystem for digital transformation, creating Pentahelix collaboration synergy between researcher, government, private sectors, community, and the society as a whole,” explained Hedi in the Plenary Session Speech of the 7th International Conference on Management in Emerging Markets (ICMEM) 2022 which was held on Thursday, 11/08/2022.
Hedi added that the programs are backed by partnerships with more than 20 international tech companies, including Cisco, Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and IBM, in addition to working with prestigious universities like Harvard University, Tsinghua University, Oxford University, National University of Singapore, MIT, and Imperial College London.
Hedi hopes that Keminfo’s initiatives will help Indonesians to upscale their capacity to initiate and encourage change towards digital transformation and foster collaborative policies that could increase the competitiveness of Indonesia’s digital economy.
