Big Market Not (Strong) Enough to Attract Investors
Improving the quality of human resources is considered urgent for Indonesia to boost competitiveness on the global stage. The quality of human capital is one of the considerations of the investors entering Indonesia.
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A worker of PT Tower Bersama Infrastructure Tbk (TBIG) checks one by one the devices at the telecommunication tower managed by the company at Maguwoharjo Stadium, Sleman, Yogyakarta, on Wednesday (9/10/2019).
JAKARTA, KOMPAS — Improving the quality of human resources is considered urgent for Indonesia to boost competitiveness on the global stage. The quality of human capital is one of the considerations of the investors entering Indonesia.
"Indonesia\'s advantage, which has always been relied on, is its jumbo market. We forget that after the FTAs [free trade agreements], the jumbo market is no longer an attraction," said Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef) senior researcher Enny Sri Hartati in Jakarta on Thursday (10/10/2019).