The Ministry of Industry (Kemenperin) supports industrial estate initiatives to apply Industry 4.0 concepts in an integrated way in their business processes. Besides using future-oriented technology, the technology-intensive nature of Industry 4.0 is considered capable of acting as a catalyst for creating sustainable efficiency.
“Industry 4.0 is therefore part of the government's chosen strategy, and we will support all efforts by stakeholders in this regard,” said the Director General of Small, Medium and Miscellaneous Industries (IKMA) at Kemenperin, Reni Yanita, representing the Minister of Industry at the Ground Breaking of the Jababeka E-Commerce Industrial Park in Bekasi, West Java, on Thursday (16/3).
The Director General of IKMA said industrial estate development is in line with Law No. 3 of 2014 on Industry, which states that all industrial sectors must be located in industrial estates. “Industrial estates must also allocate 20 percent for small and medium industries (SMIs),” she said.
Reni added that her directorate regularly runs link and match programs between large-scale industry and SMIs so the SMI sector becomes part of large industries' supply chains. “It is far more effective and efficient when production takes place in one estate, which will certainly increase competitiveness,” she added.
Kemenperin hopes implementing Industry 4.0 in industrial estates will benefit their tenants and accelerate industrial development and the competitiveness of national industry, especially as PT Jababeka Tbk is one of the pioneers in industrial estate development.
“We appreciate the new phase of Jababeka's projects, comprising a Halal Industrial Cluster, Biotech and Medical Industrial Cluster, High-tech Industrial Cluster and Startup Industrial Cluster, which will add to PT Jababeka Tbk's long list of positive contributions to industry over more than three decades,” Reni said.
The Director General of IKMA welcomed the planned Startup Industrial Cluster, as it is in line with the Startup4Industry (S4I) program Kemenperin initiated in 2017. S4I seeks startups that can become technology solution providers for SMIs and large industries facing technology challenges.
“Since 2017, almost 900 startups have taken part in the S4I program. We hope that with the Startup Industrial Cluster at Jababeka, they can meet partners or prospects who will implement their technology solutions,” Reni said.
On the same occasion, Reni also said Kemenperin welcomes the halal industrial estate to be built within the Jababeka E-Commerce Industrial Center. “As the country with the world's largest halal consumer base, Indonesia has an excellent foundation for creating a national halal ecosystem,” she said.
Another strength is that Indonesia has various industrial sectors strong enough to compete as major global halal players, including food and beverages, textiles, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.
“There are also fairly open halal markets, both in OIC countries such as Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and in non-OIC countries with large Muslim populations such as India, China and the United States,” she said.
Reni said several Kemenperin strategic programs can be used to support the estate's future business processes, including for tenants. These include preparing industrial human resources through 3-in-1 vocational education, and link and match to align industry needs with educational facilities around the estate, from vocational high schools (SMK) to D1–D4 diploma levels.
On infrastructure, there is also facilitation of Government Assignments to ministries/agencies to build infrastructure in industrial estates, including providing energy (gas and electricity) with adequate capacity at competitive prices. “Of course, in implementation the government will remain selective in setting project criteria and beneficiaries in accordance with the law,” she said.
Source: Press Release of the Ministry of Industry of the Republic of Indonesia