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Head of the Ministry of Industry's Human Resources Development Agency, Arus Gunawan. ANTARA/HO-Indonesian Ministry of Industry - 

Indonesia and Singapore have continued to intensify bilateral ties, including in developing quality human resources, as the Indonesian Ministry of Industry forged cooperation with Singapore Polytechnic. 

"This is a tangible commitment from us in supporting the government's program on implementation of the Making Indonesia 4.0 roadmap that encompasses the aim to create industrial human resources that are ready to enter the Industry 4.0 era," Head of the Ministry's Human Resources Development Agency, Arus Gunawan, noted here on Friday.

Gunawan remarked that during the 2018-2019 period, the ministry had facilitated 100 training programs for 100 teachers from productive vocational high schools, gathered through the link and match program between vocational schools and industries across the country.

"The training activities are conducted at the Singapore ITE campuses, supported by the Temasek Foundation," he expounded.

Meanwhile, Deputy Principal of Singapore Polytechnic Georgina Phua lauded the participants for their enthusiasm in partaking in the series of training activities, albeit through the online medium, on account of the pandemic.

"The Singapore Polytechnic opens up opportunity for further collaborations for wider technical scopes," she stated.

In 2020, a collaboration program between the ministry's Human Resources Development Agency and the Singapore Polytechnic on training human resources for the Industry 4.0 era was also supported by Temasek Foundation.

The ministry remarked that the program’s beneficiaries had reached 380 people, four-folds higher than the targeted 96 participants.

Senior Director of Temasek Foundation, Gerald Yeo, echoed his party’s commitment to supporting the human resources development training program based on the success recorded in the previous programs.

Gunawan is optimistic that the collaboration would be continued in future and commended all parties involved in the endeavor to shape and hone Indonesian human resources//ANT