Absorb Many Workers, Government Improves IKM Competence

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JAKARTA - The government through the Ministry of Industry (Kemenperin) states that Small and Medium Industries (IKM) require competency standards and extensions consisting of technical competencies, managerial competencies, and socio-cultural competencies.

The Ministry of Industry's Center for Human Resources Development, Education and Training, Restu Yuni Widayati, said that her party is now processing competency tests that refer to the development of competencies for IKM.

"We provide competency development through various trainings, technical guidance, seminars, to coaching and mentoring," he said in a written statement on Sunday, April 2.

According to Restu, in order to support the development of these competencies, the Ministry of Industry already has an Apparatus Education and Training Information System (SIPPA).

This system functions for database development through the Training and Competency Test feature. Currently, there are 305 PFPPs registered in the SIPPA system," he said.

Restu added that the Indonesian Industry and Trade Extension Professional Association (APPI) also played a role in the development of competence and professionalism for Composite Extension Officers from all over Indonesia.

For information, the important role of the IKM sector can be seen from the absorption of the number of workers which reached 12.39 million people or contributed 66.25 percent of the total workforce in the industrial sector.

"In addition, the number of IKMs has reached 4.4 million business units or is the majority sector of around 99.7 percent of the total business units in Indonesia in 2022," he concluded.