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.
Export
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)