RoK grants 5.5 million USD to help Indonesia improve capacity of SMEs
The grant is in the form of collaboration on smart factory adoption and
training for human resources.
Deputy
for Small and Medium Enterprises (UKM) of the Ministry of Cooperatives and
SMEs, Hanung Harimba Rachman, stated that the Official Development Assistance
Project (ODA) collaboration between the Indonesian and the RoK governments
aimed at helping local SMEs adopt the industrial ecosystem 4.0 to enter the
industrial supply chain.
He
noted this is a collaborative step to help SMEs in adopting the industrial
ecosystem 4.0, applying smart factories, Internet of Things (IoT), and
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to enter the manufacturing industry
supply chain. This is an important step, especially since the RoK is superior
in Indonesia’s manufacturing industry.
Rachman
revealed that under this project, 30 SMEs will be recommended by the ministry
to receive training on adopting smart factories at universities. In addition,
training will be conducted for 100 experts on smart factory operations through
a collaboration that will last for the next four years. The programme targeted
SMEs in the automotive, manufacturing, food and beverage, textile, electronics,
chemical, and agricultural sectors.
Meanwhile,
Policy Head of INNOBIZ Institute, Se-jong Kim, explained that a smart factory
service center will be built at the Indonesian university to facilitate the
programme with the training curriculum.
He
said that the institute has built 30,000 smart factories in the RoK and hoped
that the programme can increase SMEs' capacity in Indonesia and the
collaboration with INNOBIZ can assist the Indonesian government in developing
schemes, research, and policies related to SME certification in accordance with
the business ecosystem in Indonesia./.