Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment urges SOEs to develop highly competitive human resources
Tangerang (ANTARA) - Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment Abdul Muhaimin Iskandar has urged state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to train and prepare human resources (HR) with high competitiveness to open up career ecosystem opportunities abroad.
“I invite the existing SOEs, and Insha’Allah together with the Chairman of Commission VI, we will push SOEs to prepare more workers ready to work abroad,” Muhaimin said in Tangerang on Friday.
According to him, the role of SOEs can strengthen the competencies of prospective workers through existing corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes, which can simultaneously bolster HR quality through skill development.
By applying the principle of competency strengthening, Muhaimin continued, it is deemed able to boost productivity and enable companies to open more job opportunities abroad according to each country’s needs.
“And I hear that our talents are far more favoured than our competitors from various other countries, because our talents have a good culture, our talents have measurable and proven professionalism, our talents have good morals,” he stated.
On that occasion, he also appreciated the SOEs involved in improving HR quality, such as PT Angkasa Pura, PT Kereta Api Indonesia, KP2MI, and P3MI, for their tangible contributions in facilitating training to the placement of Indonesian migrant workers (PMI).
At least 200 prospective migrant workers under the Specified Skilled Worker (SSW) scheme in the manufacturing sector are part of the national strategy to expand Indonesian labour access to the global market through the SMK Go Global programme.
The SMK Go Global programme is one of the special attentions of President Prabowo Subianto, who directly instructed Coordinating Minister Muhaimin Iskandar after the Cabinet Meeting on 5 November 2025.
The SMK Go Global programme running today is an initial step, a piloting phase supported by SOE CSR financing.
“From here, the programme model is tested and refined, as a foundation towards the implementation of a regular scheme that is currently being prepared,” he said.
They were dispatched through various collaborative programmes, consisting of 50 people through PT Angkasa Pura’s CSR programme, 30 people through PT Kereta Api Indonesia’s CSR programme, and 120 people through facilitation by Indonesian Migrant Worker Placement Companies (P3MI).
The send-off, he continued, is part of the implementation of the SMK Go Global policy, designed as a bridge to produce superior and globally competitive human resources.
Coordinating Minister Muhaimin stated that this activity is a concrete implementation of SMK Go Global, designed to prepare Indonesian talents to compete at the international level while representing the quality of the national workforce.
“Today’s send-off is real proof that SMK Go Global is key in opening access and expanding the expansion of Indonesian workers abroad. We want our HR to be able to compete and seize opportunities in the international job market,” he said.