Jakarta, July 17 -- Indonesia's Manpower Minister Yassierli has underlined the critical importance of strengthening workforce skills to tackle global challenges and accelerate the transition to a green economy.

"Indonesia has enormous potential to develop the electric vehicle industry. But without a skilled and adaptive workforce, that potential will go to waste," he said in a statement issued on Thursday.

He emphasized that collaboration between stakeholders is a vital step toward improving human resource quality, especially in the strategic electric vehicle (EV) sector, which is projected to grow rapidly.

Such partnerships, he added, help align workers' skills with industry demands.

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