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Tech giants train Indonesians to tap into latent potential
From United States tech giants Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to China’s Alibaba, Huawei and ByteDance’s TikTok, they have been working alongside the government and local communities to scale up their digital trainings so that more Indonesians can benefit.
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Digital literacy: School students use the internet to work on their assignments at an event in Jakarta. (Tempo/-)
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he technology behemoths of the world are rolling out digital training programs in Indonesia, a country of significant relevance to their businesses, to address literacy and skillset gaps in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.
From United States tech giants Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to China’s Alibaba, Huawei and ByteDance’s TikTok, they have been working alongside the government and local communities to scale up their digital trainings so that more Indonesians can benefit.
Digital proficiency will lead Indonesians to consume more of the technology giants’ products and services, with the country poised to have the largest digital economy in Southeast Asia, with a value of US$100 billion by 2025, up from $27 billion in 2018, according to the annual “e-Conomy Southeast Asia” study conducted by Google and Singaporean holding company Temasek.
“To become the biggest digital economy [in Southeast Asia], Indonesia needs an excellent workforce,” said Huawei CNBG Indonesia CEO Andy Ma Hui, adding that the forecast had motivated the company to contribute to growth through its upskilling programs.
Huawei announced on Thursday it was offering a base transceiver station and microwave vocational training program for 1,000 participants in partnership with the Manpower Ministry through the ministry’s training centers in Bekasi, West Java.
The Manpower Ministry has seen a drastic increase in business participation in promoting better human capital, primarily from the digital economy sector, to capitalize on the country’s massive and under-developed digital potential, said the ministry’s Training and Productivity Supervision Director General Bambang Satrio Lelono.
On Wednesday, US tech giant Amazon’s cloud computing arm AWS unveiled in an interview with The Jakarta Post that the company would initiate its cloud-computing skills enhancement plan to target hundreds of thousands of Indonesians by 2025.
