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A historical account of VET Interventions in Indonesia: which way forward?
Payaman Siminjutak1, Adam Voak2, Brian Fairman3.
The Indonesian labor force remains poorly educated and ill equipped to tackle the
growing challenges of meeting contemporary industry requirements. While many countries
aspire to equip future generations with the skills, knowledge and attitudes for a future working
life, the relationship between the ‘world of work’ and the current Indonesian education system
remains somewhat elusive. In the words of the Minister of Education and Culture, Nadiem
Makarim, ‘the biggest problem that we have had in education is we have somehow not found
the formulae to entice businesses to participate in educational system (Neumann, 2021)’ Over
the many decades of Vocational Education and Training (VET) interventions in Indonesia, a
series of unsatisfactory attempts to reconcile educational approaches with labour market
requirements have left Indonesian civil society ill prepared for the future and uncertain of their
next response. Furthermore, the uncritical importation of external foreign VET practices into
the cultural milieu of contemporary Indonesian society, in an attempt to resolve these dilemmas,
may have problematized and exacerbated these issues (Simanjuntak, 2005). This paper
examines the Indonesian Government’s educational approaches to human capability
development from an historical perspective whilst seeking to contribute to an understanding of
this complex situation.
Affiliation:
- ASEAN Institute of Applied Learning, Jakarta, Indonesia, Indonesia
- James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Australia
- James Cook University, Singapore, Singapore
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