Skills for Competitiveness (S4C)

Results 2018 - 2023

Graduates’ Competency and Employment:

• 97.4% graduates from Kendal Furniture Polytechnic, Bantaeng Community Academy for Manufacturing Industry, and Morowali Metal Industry Polytechnic passed the competency test.
• 60% graduates from Kendal Furniture Polytechnic, Community Academy Bantaeng, Morowali Metal Industry Polytechnic, and Jember State Polytechnic have a full-time job. Other graduates are self-employed (8%), continuing education (6%), part-time employed (3%) or freelancers (2%).
• 54% of employed graduates work in a job directly related to the training and 32% of employed graduates work in a partly related job.
• 84% of employed graduates earn at least 30% above the provincial minimum wage.
• The average scale of graduates' perception of the relevance of their competencies, skills, and attitudes for work is 3.76/5.
• The employer’s perception rates graduates’ skills, competencies and attitudes as highly relevant, scoring 4.1/5 in the user satisfaction survey.

Strengthening of school management capacities:

• 80 training sessions on strategic planning, accreditation, quality assurance, IT development and branding;
• 4 schools were assisted for the accreditation process of eleven (11) programs and received accreditation.

Development of practical facilities:

• 62 workshop sessions to provide technical support around teaching factory (TEFA), occupational safety & health (OSH), testing center units, and laboratory layouts;
• 2 TEFAs of bakery and fish canning were established in Jember. The TEFA bakery received “B” (good) accreditation and became a benchmark as a well-developed TEFA;
• 60 staff under the Ministry of Industry (MoI)’s Agency for Industry Human Resource Development (AIHRD) educational units received general and chemical OSH certification.

Dual-teaching approach:

• 14 curricula (3 in Bantaeng, 3 in Banten, 2 in Jember, 3 in Morowali, and 3 in Kendal) were developed or updated in close collaboration with the industry to ensure the relevance of the curriculum to industry needs;
• 78 capacity building workshops have been conducted to support polys and industries implementing the industry-based curriculum (IBC);
• 19 certified and non-certified facilitators involved in IBC facilitator pool coordinated by AIHRD.

Strengthening of teaching capacities:

• 114 training courses on technical skills (95) and methodology (19) delivered for the capacity building of lecturers.
• 31 lecturers from four partner schools completed the Peer Coaching and E-Didactic training; a key response to the rising need due to the pandemic.
• 38 lecturers successfully passed the examination of the 1st phase of the competency assessor training, which was jointly conducted with the MoI and the National Professional Certification Agency (NPCA).

Poly-private sector cooperation:

• Partnerships have been established with 293 companies to secure internships for students. In addition, 69 (24%) of them have provided internships continuously for three or more consecutive years since 2019;
• 31 trainings and workshops were conducted for polytechnics and companies to establish and strengthen their partnership;
• 231 In-Company Trainers received international certification to manage structured internship programs for the benefit of students and companies.

Strengthening dVET service providers:

• 51 institutions and 75 individual consultants were supported to provide dVET services to polytechnics such as industry-based curriculum (IBC) development, lecturers' training, management capacity building, Career Development Centre (CDC), competency test, and Occupational Safety & Health (OSH), as well as to companies such as In-CT training and structured internship;
• 20 In-CT training events (12 basic, 5 master, 2 master coaching, 1 master refreshment) were conducted, with 275 participants representing 154 companies;
• 4 companies have been linked by the project through SwissCham to the service of supertax deduction scheme provided by the of Ministry of Finance’s Directorate General of Tax.

Knowledge Management and Learning Mechanism:

• 27 knowledge sharing and 6 peer learning events or workshops were organized, with a total of 2,758 participants representing government entities, TVET schools, TVET implementing partners, industries, chambers, and associations.

Policy issues:

• Policy support was provided to policymakers through four activities: In-CT Training Impact Study (2020), Motivation Survey of Training vs Non-training Companies (2021-22), Policy Dialogue on Internship to feed into the National TVET Strategy (2022) and Focus Group Discussion on Student Internship Guideline (2023).