Indonesia Seeks to Train 15,000 Engineers in Chip Design Through Arm Partnership
Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia — The Indonesian government is targeting 15,000 Indonesian engineers to receive chip design training through a cooperation framework agreement between Indonesia’s Investment Management Agency (BPI Danantara) and Arm Limited.
The signing of the framework agreement was witnessed directly by President Prabowo Subianto in London, England on Monday (23 February).
Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto stated that the UK-based semiconductor company is a key player in the global semiconductor industry, particularly in the upstream of the production chain for chip design.
According to him, Arm controls approximately 96% of chip technology for the global automotive sector and nearly 94% of chip designs for data centres and artificial intelligence (AI).
Airlangga emphasised that through this partnership, Indonesia will send and train 15,000 engineers within the Arm ecosystem to master chip design technology.
“Through this cooperation, it is hoped that Indonesia can conduct training for 15,000 of our engineers within the Arm ecosystem, so they can master chip design technology,” said Airlangga, as quoted by CNBC Indonesia from the Indonesian State Secretariat on Wednesday (25 February 2026).
The training programme will be implemented through two schemes: sending Indonesian experts abroad and bringing Arm trainers directly to the country with specialised modules.
Minister of Investment and Downstream Industries/Head of BPI Danantara Rosan Perkasa Roeslani stated that the partnership is expected to have broad impacts for developing the national industry whilst strengthening Indonesia’s technological sovereignty.
“There will indeed be six industries selected for chip development and as the Coordinating Minister mentioned, 15,000 of our engineers will be trained by Arm, either by sending them here or by having their instructors come to Indonesia with their modules,” explained Rosan.
Further, Airlangga explained that the six national chip design development initiatives will focus on strategically important intellectual property fields.
“These six are intellectual property which we can choose whether one is for automotive technology, secondly Internet of Things, thirdly related to data centres, it could also be about home appliances, the other two we can choose whether we want something futuristic, especially autonomous vehicles and quantum computing, and others,” said Airlangga.