REGIONAL TVET CONFERENCE 2017
13 - 15 June 2017, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
The Digital Economy Era
Indonesia is the fastest
growing country in relation
to the number of internet
users today compared to
2016. Indonesia is almost 3
times over the global
average with a 51% growth
year-on-year.
Game Industry Value (US$)
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
2014
2015
2016
Available Supply
• Vocational school (SMK)
graduates are a highly favorable
choice of hire for SMEs.
• But official data from the Central
Statistics Agency (BPS) in
February 2017 shows that the
unemployment rate of SMK
graduates is the highest.
Unemployment Rate (%)
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Elementary Junior High
High
Vocational
Diploma
University
Employable Skillset
Device to Connect Internet
Mobile Only
Mobile + PC
PC Only
Device Operating System
Android
iOS
Other
How to Produce Talent
Dicoding addresses this problem through a threepronged approach:
• academy,
• challenges, and
• exciting networking privileges for developers.
How We Produce Talent
• Collaborate with partners from the
IT industry
• Manually review code submissions
within our academy
• Develop competent coders who are
work-ready as promising
entrepreneurs and professional IT
specialists.
Case Study – SMK Tangkas 2017
• The campaign supported by GIZ via SED-TVET, cofacilitated by IBM Indonesia and Axioo Education
aimed to empower potential talent
• Particularly IT Vocational students, in reaching
their optimum capability and readying a next
generation of workers to advance the Creative
Economy Sector.
Case Study – Train The Teachers
Case Study – Train The Students
• Students are expected to learn how to make simple Mobile App
(Android) using the cloud toolkit of IBM Mobile UI Builder.
• The course is titled Building Android Apps using IBM Bluemix.
• The curriculum used for training
is developed by Dicoding, under
the supervision of IBM
Indonesia Cloud Advisory Team.
Case Study – Challenge The Students
• Selected students were offered ‘a
challenge’ to create a viable IT
product/solution
• From this challenge, a total of 33 new
products were created and judged by
the team of experts from IBM, Axioo,
and Dicoding.
• A great learning experience!
Result
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
Worker
Worker