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The Contribution of Tertiary Level Education

(Swa: 29-11/06/08) The success story behind the yuppies behind Google, You Tube and Facebook has inspired youths of the world in choosing a profession in business as their career. The development of Internet from the Web 1.0 technology platform (access democratization) to Web 2.0 (access and participation democratization) has created wide open chances for each individual to try a hand in business. This is the reason Karl Schramm dubs this day and age as the era of entrepreneurial capitalism.

Kusmayanto Kadiman

SWA | 29 May - 11 June 2008. We have to admit that up to now, development is still progressing without many ideas utilizing instinctive knowledge and technology (Iptek) as the main source of energy. Unmanaged creativity has created a mechanism of dependency upon foreign products. This dependency is hard to debate. Calculations of the Total Factor Productivity (TFP), which shows the involvement of technology in the production process, indicate that Indonesia’s TFP growth value in 2007 was a mere 1.38% (Bank of Indonesia, 2007). This means that the source of national economic growth is still dominated by capital factors and indicates that developments of solid capital projects are not efficient in catalyzing national economic growth.

Jakarta, 22 May 2008. A total of 830 teachers and Principals from 30 public lower secondary schools in Karawang have joined a teacher quality improvement program made possible through the collaboration of the Regional Government of Karawang, PT HM Sampoerna Tbk. and Sampoerna Foundation. The provision of the training was made official today through the signing of an MoU by Elan Merdy, Chief Operating Officer Sampoerna Foundation and the Regent of Karawang, Dadang S. Muchtar and witnessed by Hadi Fauzan, Director of Corporate Affairs and Niken Rachmad, Director of Communications PT. HM Sampoerna Tbk., at the Karawang Regent’s office today.

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Sampoerna Foundation (SF) is a professional philanthropy organization and a service provider for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with absolute focus in the field of education. Since 2001, we have given out 30,000 scholarships, adopted 22 schools, offered world-class training for teachers and principals, transformed a graduate business school, and set up a student loan facility.

We are committed to transparency and accountability in all our activities and expenditures. Outsourcing your CSR activities through SF will allow your company to leverage our best practices and knowledge from more than 200 experts in education and philanthropy management. Sampoerna Foundation is certified ISO-9000-2001 for its quality management systems.