Journey to Pilot Completion of VOCIFY Green Skills and Apprenticeship Programme

This April marks an important milestone for OCS Indonesia as the VOCIFY Green Skills and Apprenticeship Programme completes its pilot phase with two industry partners in automotive manufacturing and logistics.

Initiated in late 2024, the programme was designed to explore how workforce development can be embedded directly within operations, where capability is built through real work, guided supervision, and consistent performance standards, while aligned with internationally recognized UK TVET frameworks.

This journey has been shaped through collaboration with the Department for Business and Trade of the UK in Indonesia – British Embassy Jakarta, alongside UK professional and awarding institutions including ABE, CILT International – The Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport International, and The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI). Their role has been instrumental in ensuring that the approach remains both locally grounded and internationally credible.

What the pilot phase demonstrates is a working model: that vocational training can be integrated into daily operations without separating learning from productivity. In this context, facilities management serves as an accessible entry point into formal employment, where technical capability, safety, discipline, and service standards are developed in parallel, creating pathways for progression over time.

More broadly, this reflects a growing direction in workforce systems, where vocational education is increasingly positioned as part of economic infrastructure, linking education, industry, and productivity in a more integrated way. The approach aligns with ongoing UK–Indonesia collaboration on skills development, where industry-led participation plays a critical role in translating frameworks into execution.

With the pilot phase now completed, the programme will move into its next stage, focused on scaling participation across sectors and strengthening integration with training institutions, industry partners, and certification pathways.

We share this milestone not as a conclusion, but as part of a longer process that continues to test how structured, work-based learning can expand access to opportunity while maintaining standards that are both relevant and transferable.

Because in the end, workforce systems are not built by design alone. They take shape when standards are applied consistently, capability is developed through real work, and opportunity becomes something that can be accessed.