There are plenty of engineering graduates, who are quite good, but they lack soft skills, such as collaboration, public speaking, communication, and language. Learning soft skills, such as public speaking, is best through direct practice.
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Local software engineers should work on improving their soft skills in addition to their technical skills, member of the House of Representatives' (DPR's) Commission X, Bramantyo Suwondo, stated.

"There are plenty of engineering graduates, who are quite good, but they lack soft skills, such as collaboration, public speaking, communication, and language. Learning soft skills, such as public speaking, is best through direct practice," Suwondo noted in his statement received here on Saturday.

The House member also called on software engineers to be more active and dynamic in preparing themselves to meet the needs of the industry that is developing swiftly.

In Germany, the industry's requirements always align with what is taught in the world of education, so their graduates possess the requisite industry-specific skills, he pointed out.

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However, in comparison, the situation is different in Indonesia, where computer technology graduates are plentiful, but what is taught does not always match with the industry's requirements, he remarked.

"I am concerned of an oversupply. We have scores of IT graduates, though their quality still needs to be improved a lot," Suwondo stated.

Taking stock of the situation, founder of the software engineer environment called Smart Coding House Rachmat Fajrin believes that Indonesia requires a platform for local programmers to encourage them to succeed.

Through the Smart Coding House, his group has built an ecosystem to make programmers more independent, powerful, and competitive.

"We are optimistic that people would understand that in the world of software engineering, other aspects, such as communication, leadership, time and priority management, networking, and few other aspects, should be increased. It is not always about technical skills," he pointed out. (
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Translator: Kuntum Riswan, Fadhli Ruhman
Editor: Suharto
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