A cattle station exchange program has 20 Indonesian agriculture students learning the ropes at Northern Territory stations, and there are more women than ever involved in this year’s program.
Skills Futures
A plan to recruit university heads from overseas in order to improve research quality and boost performance in global university rankings, has provoked controversy.
The Engaging with Indonesia 2020-2024 strategy highlights the need to collaborate with Indonesian universities and researchers to have a positive impact on issues facing Indonesia and the world.
Scholars warn that without transparency and accountability as well as merit-based competition the government’s recent efforts will once again end up a waste of money.
Poverty remains an ingrained problem in Indonesia despite the country’s success in cutting its poverty rate to a single-digit level for the first time in 2018.
The New Colombo Plan’s soft power can’t be underestimated. It’s a powerful gesture: sending our youth to learn from our neighbours is a sign of humility. It shows a willingness to cooperatively shape the region’s future.
“With innovation, superior human resources and technology, we will escape our dependence on natural resources. The country’s human capital should be world-class.”
Jokowi again drew attention to the impact of artificial intelligence on job simplification, so that various aspects of human work in the future can be more streamlined.
