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As the leader of the ASEAN cooperation on labor for the 2020-2022, she added, Indonesia seeks
to promote ASEAN workers for competidveness, resilience, and agility on the future of work.
Ida highlighted that Indonesia will focus on improving and accelerating the vocational skills of
its workers, especially in developing technology pro-ficiency.

"In that way, workers can meet the needs of digital disruption in order to take jobs avail-able in
the digital economy era and survive the crisis from the COVID-19 pandemic," she ex-plained.

The biennial gathering brings labor ministers of ten ASEAN countries to discuss current and
emerging challenges that have impact on labor cooperation in the region, and the ASEAN Labor
Ministers Meeting Plus Three Countries: Japan, Korea, and China, also known as ALMM+3, will
bring the ten ASEAN labor ministers along with heads of delegations from the three close allies.

"The ALMM is a forum to exchange information and share our experiences in facing the digital
workforce transformation and what type of vocational education needed to address the shift,"
Ida said.

Among the pressing issues and challenges in the digital age dis-cussed in the meeting were
employment relationships, types of employment contract, social dialogue, occupadonal health
and social security, and the low entrepreneurship rates among ASEAN nations.

"We hope the ASEAN cooperation on labor can encourage growth and new initiatives in the
industry sector, such as in the industrial relations, skills develop-ment, occupational health and
safety, and labor inspection," Ida said.

In the 26lh ALMM, Indonesia proposed three cooperation initiatives in the field of regional
workforce.

The first initiative is a measure to adopt the ASEAN Dec-laration on improving the com-
petitiveness, resilience, and agility of the region's workers to help them thrive in the new
economy.

The second one aims to promote cooperation among ASEAN nations, ASEAN's dialogue partners,
regional social partners, and international organizations to achieve the goals set in the
Declaration.

"The third seeks to make meaningful progress and milestones in creating competitive, resilient,
and agile workers who are ready to face the future of work," Ida added.

The ministiy has launched the 3S Program, in which 3S stands for skilling, reskilling, and up-
skilling, as part of its effort to fiil the digital skills gap. The program, which involves industrial
entities and other relevant stake-holders, aims to provide training and education through
training. centers (BLK).

Starting from Oct. 28, Ida would lead the ASEAN cooperation on labor until 2022 to im-prove the
competitiveness of the workforce in ASEAN, said secretary-general of the Manpower Ministry
Anwar1 Sanusi, who is also the chair of the Senior Labor Officials Meeting.

There are three keywords to improve the skills of the ASEAN labor force. "They are
competitiveness, persistence, and agility, all of which allow workers to be agile enough to master
jobs in the future," said Anwar.

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