Indonesia is increasingly consolidating its position as a premier\ndestination for global investment and migration. Positive projections\nfor national economic growth towards becoming the world\u2019s fourth-largest\neconomy have attracted massive capital flows from multinational\ncorporations, particularly from China and Europe.<\/p>\n
The expansion of manufacturing facilities and strengthening of\nlogistics infrastructure has created massive demand for professional\nlabour in the supply chain sector, spanning procurement, warehousing,\nfreight forwarding, cargo logistics and transportation functions.<\/p>\n
However, beneath these golden opportunities, Indonesia faces a\nstructural paradox. Demand for human resource quality has increased\ndramatically, whilst global competency competition is intensifying.\nMultinational enterprises tend to prioritise workers certified to\ninternational standards with adequate foreign language skills. This\nphenomenon has made the national labour market a competitive\nbattlefield, where candidates without formal certification and language\ncapability risk being left behind.<\/p>\n
The Chairman of the Indonesian Supply Chain Professionals Association\n(IARSI), Assoc. Prof (Hon) R. Beniadi Setiawan, ST, MM, Ph.D., believes\nthe main issue is no longer the absence of standards, but rather their\nwidespread implementation and application.<\/p>\n
The government has actually prepared competency instruments through\nthe Indonesian National Work Competency Standard (SKKNI), SKKI, and SKK,\nwhich in logistics and supply chain management alone encompass over 60\nnational professional occupations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe challenge is ensuring these standards become a genuine reference\nin recruitment processes and human resource quality management in\nindustry, business and employment,\u201d Beniadi stated firmly, also serving\nas Vice Chair of Quality Assurance at the Permanent Committee for\nProfessional Certification of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and\nIndustry (Kadin).<\/p>\n
Adding strategic dimensions, investment cooperation through Danantara\nwith partners from Australia, the United States, Spain and Japan\nconfirms that investment focus has shifted not only to technology\ntransfer but to job creation in Indonesia.<\/p>\n
Danantara\u2019s strategic plan for 2026 projects the creation of\napproximately 600,000 genuine jobs in the energy, food and digital\ntransformation sectors. If managed through on-the-job training and joint\ncertification mechanisms, this investment has considerable potential to\nshift national labour composition towards high-value work.<\/p>\n
However, Beniadi emphasised that setting national competency\nstandards alone is insufficient without synchronised implementation. The\ngovernment must strengthen policies encouraging local certified workers,\napply competency certification as a recruitment and quality management\nstandard in state-owned enterprises, regional government-owned\nenterprises, institutions and agencies, and provide incentives for\ncompanies implementing such measures.<\/p>\n
This momentum of global investment into Indonesia must be leveraged\nto build a resilient industrial ecosystem. Success is measured not\nmerely by capital figures, but by the extent to which investment\nstrengthens Indonesian workers\u2019 global competitiveness.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf all stakeholders move together to consistently oversee competency\nstandards, this investment flow will become a transformational force for\nIndonesian people\u2019s welfare,\u201d concluded Beniadi.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/indonesia-remains-a-global-investment-magnet-1772247251", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }