Equipping garment factory workers with soft skills to face future of work challenges
Understanding the importance of soft skills in the world of work, the ILO organizes a series of soft skills training in April-May 2022 targeting garment factory workers.
I appreciate the ILO, industry partners as well as workers for this initiative and hope that this training can be replicated at the provincial and district levels to reach more workers."
Budi Hartawan, Director General of Vocational Training Development and Productivity, Ministry of Manpower
Participated by 150 workers from three garment factories - PT Jaya Perkasa Textile, PT Eco Smart Garment, and PT Jiale Indonesia Textile - this training delivers 4 soft skills training that are highly demanded by industry based on the results of ILO’s rapid assessment, such as teamwork, communication, critical thinking, and integrity.
“The ILO has committed to support tripartite stakeholders in developing a responsive skills training system in Indonesia, one of which is by developing blended training modules that includes entrepreneurship, technical skills, and soft skills. This training uses an offline soft skills module that we developed together with the Ministry of Manpower last year,” said Michiko Miyamoto, Director of ILO Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste.
The ILO has committed to support tripartite stakeholders in developing a responsive skills training system in Indonesia, one of which is by developing blended training modules that includes entrepreneurship, technical skills, and soft skills."
Michiko Miyamoto, Director of ILO Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste
The Ministry of Manpower acknowledges this initiative as an effort to improve labour conditions to build back better, in line with one of Indonesia's mottos in G20. “One of the government's priorities in the G20 is improving human capacity for sustainable productivity growth. This soft skill training marked as an important step in achieving this goal. I appreciate the ILO, industry partners as well as workers for this initiative and hope that this training can be replicated at the provincial and district levels to reach more workers," said Budi Hartawan, Director General of Vocational Training Development and Productivity, Ministry of Manpower.
This soft skills training module is also available on the Ministry of Manpower's online training website, allowing everyone to access without register to the Job Training Center (BLK).
We are pleased to be part of the ILO soft-skills training project. Collaboration between industry and training providers is important for worker development, enabling people to continue contributing to productivity and growth in a changing economy."
Yukihiro Nitta, Group Executive Officer, Sustainability, Fast Retailing, Co., Ltd
These skills development programmes aim to build responsive skills development policies and systems, strengthen industry-vocational training collaboration, promote and pilot digital and distance learning, and create synergies between skills development and other labour market policies.
“We are pleased to be part of the ILO soft-skills training project. Collaboration between industry and training providers is important for worker development, enabling people to continue contributing to productivity and growth in a changing economy. The ILO soft-skills training for garment factory workers will certainly strengthen worker competitiveness in the world of work, now and in the future,” said Yukihiro Nitta, Group Executive Officer, Sustainability, Fast Retailing, Co., Ltd.
For more information, please contact:
Hirania WiryastiILO’s National Project Officer for Digital and Distance Learning
Email: wiryasti@ilo.org
Ayunda Pratama
ILO’s Communication Officer for Skills Development
Email: pratama@ilo.org