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View all search resultsAs the biggest contributor to the internet economy's growth in Southeast Asia, Indonesia’s tech sector is booming. However its growth is being held back by a shortage of skilled STEM talent, producing only 278 engineers per million people a year.
"It was already hard to find a job to begin with, even without a pandemic," said Ghea, 21, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communication science in early March, shortly after Indonesia announced its first confirmed cases.
The event was hosted by SWE as the main part of their engineering week program, which provides coding, robotics and science engineering classes. Prior to the event on Feb. 22, the group visited five schools in Jakarta to boost the students' interest in STEAM.
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