China's industrial drive into Indonesia runs into a personnel shortage

Local talent pool has not kept pace with demand for staff

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A joint research lab that Chinese company GEM helped set up opens at Indonesia's Bandung Institute of Technology on Aug. 28, 2024. (Xinhua)

ZHAO XUAN, Caixin

When Chinese nickel producer Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt launched a new project in Indonesia, the shortage of truck drivers proved so acute it had to set up its own driving school.

"We were short on workers -- from engineers to technicians and drivers," said Vice President Sun Lihui during a Belt and Road investment summit held in Jakarta from May 24 to 26. "We ended up establishing a school to train our own drivers. So far, we've trained more than 2,000," he told Caixin.

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