InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Ministry of Industry keeps focusing on developing industrial downstream sectors to escalate additional values of materials in this country. The strategic things are proven by increasing the regional income which eventually it escalates the people’s welfare.

“To implement industrial downstream sectors, it needs competent human resources. That is why Ministry of Industry keeps developing industrial human resources such as by developing education and trainings for vocation in competence – base,” Head of Development Agency of Industrial Human Resource Ministry of Industry, Masrokhan said in Jakarta, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Wednesday (17/5/2023).

Masrokhan thought, one unit in vocational education that his institution develops is SMK-SMTI Banda Aceh. It plays important roles to provide competent industrial workers, including supporting palm oil factories.

“To reinforce agricultural sectors in Aceh Province, SMK-SMTI Banda Aceh is specialized in product process in palm oil – base,” he said.

In the first quarter of 2023, the economy in Aceh escalated 5,78 percent (year on year/yoy) within the major supports from agriculture, forestry, and fishery that reached 29,61 percent.

He also emphasized SMK-SMTI Banda Aceh would play its roles as the technology innovation center to support developing industrial product in palm oil. “We hope SMK SMTI Banda Aceh could develop applied researches by having cooperation with industrial sectors, including small and medium scale to implement the result of research and development,” Masrokhan said. (T2)