Five firms, one institution win management awards
Five firms, one institution win management awards
JAKARTA (JP): Five private companies and the National Family
Planning Board (BKKBN) won management awards last night from the
Manila-based Asian Institute of Management and the Hong Kong-
based Far Eastern Economic Review magazine.
Minister of Education and Culture Wardiman Djojonegoro, who
presented the awards for the five institutions in a ceremony
here, said that their management success should resonate with the
overall economic development in the country.
The five companies receiving the 1993 Asian Management Awards
were PT Astra International (for general management and people
development management), PT Charoen Pokphand Indonesia and PT
Dankos Laboratories (both for financial management), PT Great
Giant Pineapple Company (for marketing management) and PT Bank
Bali (for information technology management and development
management).
The six award winners were selected from among 746 nominees
from all over Indonesia. A total of 7,500 nominees from Hong
Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and
Thailand competed for the awards and each country had their own
winners.
The awards for Bank Bali and Astra International were the
second that they have received for the people development and
management category.
Chairman of BKKBN Haryono Suyono, who is also the state
minister of population, stated that the success of his agency is
anchored in its management based on the people.
"In running BKKBN, we have implemented management with the
people, and later the management by the people," Haryono said.
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He noted that BKKBN has exported its family planning
technology to 75 countries and will continue to take part in
efforts to control birth throughout the world.
BKKBN now holds the record as the first non-profit
organization to win both awards for outstanding development
management in 1992 and operations management this year.
T.P. Rachmat of PT Astra International, a repeat winner,
having won three major awards in the program's first year, stated
that the secret of his company's success lies in the continual
review of the company's executives. "I myself review about 400
top executives," Rachmat said.
Rudy Ramly of Bank Bali, agreed with Rachmat's stance on
improving the performance of a company, saying that human
resources are at the forefront of utilizing the existing
technology.
He noted that his bank enjoyed an after-tax profit of Rp 61
billion (US$28 million) last year. He predicted that this year,
the company will gain a profit of some Rp 65 billion.
Wardiman said in his address that the changing of Indonesia's
industrial structure to a more scientifically and technologically
based industry is inevitable.
"Indonesia's industries will be forced to move up on the
ladder of the technological intensity of their products ... in
order to improve productivity growth, which in turn can sustain
increased trade between Indonesia and the rest of the world," he
said. (rid)