Exploring the Problem of the Talent Crisis and the Low Interest of the Young Generation in the World of Technology

The issue of talent is still a topic of discussion among startups, investors and academics. The increasing growth of startups at this time has not been able to optimally recruit qualified young talents, especially in the programming/programming field.developer.

In the opportunity Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) Jakarta 2017, experts consisting of investors, entrepreneur and academics who are directly involved in the world of technology, discuss these issues. From the results of the discussion, it was revealed several things, ranging from the low quality of educators and the low number of young people who want to enter the world of technology, to several factors causing the low number to quality. "supply" developer in Indonesia today.

Improving the quality of teachers

As one of the IT-preneur schools that has been around since 1987, Purwadhika Startup and Coding School, are consistent in always providing lessons related to technology. If previously the focus of teaching was more on making computers, in 2017 the focus of teaching is more on programming. According to Purwadhika Startup & Coding School and Neurosoft Indonesia Founder and President, Purwa Hartono, one of the obstacles that hinders the growth of experts in this field is the lack of quality and ability of teachers to the current weak curriculum in Indonesia. So that it cannot attract the attention of young people to then plunge into the world of technology.

"There are still many young people today who prefer to pursue degrees and work in government to private companies. In addition, most of them still see coding and programming is a difficult lesson to digest," said Purwa.

In line with Purwa, CEO Hacktiv8 which has given birth to energy coder system who have successfully worked at well-known local startups such as GO-JEK to Tokopedia revealed that qualified and patient teachers are the determining factors for student success. In this case, Hacktiv8, which is a Full Stack JavaScript Programming class in Jakarta, has a mission to create a new workforce that is reliable and accountable. As revealed by the CEO, Hacktiv8 Ronald Ishak.

"To ensure that students from Hacktiv8 will be immediately accepted into well-known startups in Indonesia today, we continue to collaborate with startups such as GO-JEK to Kudo."

Investor and government support

To be able to create an opportunity and at the same time gather young people who have an interest in becoming a engineer, support from local to foreign investors and the government also has an important role. In this case, according to the Founding Partner of Kejora Ventures and Director of the Founder Institute Andy Zain, through: venture capital and Founder Institute which he leads is expected to produce candidates entrepreneur and quality startups, through fostered programs conducted by Kejora as well as the Founder Institute.

"Until now we are quite proud to have fostered startups that have won the startup competition. In accordance with our goal, namely to produce quality startup champions."

Not only prizes in the form of IDR 100 million given by the Founder Institute, but also the opportunity to develop products to the validation process. If the startup has gone through the process, the Founder Institute will support it until the product launch arrives.

For this reason, the government, through Bekraf, should ideally also be able to think of new ways that can attract the interest of young Indonesians to become entrepreneurs entrepreneur in the field of quality technology.

"Apart from The roadmap owned by Bekraf, of course, support from investors, programming classes and startup schools can help create engineer until there are more new startups," said Bekraf's Deputy for Infrastructure Hari Sungkari.

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