Even before President Joko
Widodo’s official visit to Germany
brought the country’s highly-
regarded Dual Vocational
Education and Training (DVET)
system into the limelight, EKONID
has been promoting the system’s
benefits in Indonesia for years.
Laying the path for
DVET in Indonesia
A
special
highlight
of
EKONID’s
2016
activities is its new initiative to implement
a dual vocational training Meister class in
automotive mechatronics in collaboration
with the Indonesian company ASTRA International and
its Manufacturing Polytechnic (Polman ASTRA). This
certified further qualification course for automotive
mechatronics under supervision and coordination by
EKONID is scheduled to start next year and would as such
be the only one realized so far in South East Asia. In 2016,
EKONID and ASTRA started preparing and translating the
required curriculum on the basis of the German system’s
dual vocational 1-year Meister education. The curriculum
does not only cover further specific theoretical and practical
technical knowledge and skills but also non-technical
elements like order aquisition and management, finance
and accounting and personnel managment. ASTRA’s high
interest in the Meister qualification for its staff has already
been reflected in the recent past. End of 2015, the company
sent two of its automotive mechatronics to Alfons-Kern-
Schule in Pforzheim, Germany to successfully conclude the
German Meister training there until 2017.
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