Jakarta – Indonesia, through the Investment Management Agency (BPI) Danantara, has signed a partnership agreement with British semiconductor company ArmLimited. This collaboration underscores the government’s commitment to strengthening competitiveness on the global technology stage, particularly in the semiconductor industry.
Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartanto, stated that this collaboration is projected to accelerate the increase in national capacity and independence in the development of strategic technologies, particularly in the semiconductor sector.
“With this collaboration, it is hoped that Indonesia can train 15,000 of our engineers within the Arm ecosystem, so they can master chip design technology. The collaboration is planned to continue with the next generation of semiconductors or chips, so that Indonesia has capabilities in the semiconductor and design fields,” said Airlangga.
As is known, Arm is one of the companies dominating the global automotive semiconductor market. Arm Limited controls approximately 96 percent of the global automotive chip technology and nearly 94 percent of chip designs for data centers and artificial intelligence.
“This collaboration aims to enable Indonesia to master semiconductor technology, and Arm is one of the companies dominating the semiconductor market, particularly in terms of design. So, this is the most upstream part of the semiconductor industry itself,” Airlangga explained.
Airlangga added that this collaboration is a direct follow-up to President Prabowo’s directive to strengthen national technological independence. This step also forms part of the government’s strategic agenda to strengthen the foundations of national food and energy security.
Rosan Perkasa Roeslani, Minister of Investment and Downstream Development/Head of BPI Danantara, also stated that the partnership is expected to have a broad impact on national industrial development while strengthening Indonesia’s technological sovereignty. The program will be implemented through sending experts to participate in training abroad, as well as bringing instructors from Arm to Indonesia with specialized training modules.
“Six industries will be selected to develop these chips, and the plan, as the Coordinating Minister stated, is for 15,000 of our engineers to be trained by Arm, either by sending them here or by having their instructors come to Indonesia with their modules,” Rosan said.
This strategic partnership also marks Indonesia’s transformation from a technology consumer to a high-value producer in the global supply chain. The government believes technology can play a key role in Indonesia’s ascent to global economic power by integrating the vast potential of its human resources and natural resources into a highly competitive production system, leading to the vision of a Golden Indonesia 2045.