AOTS Journal 2017 AUTUMN No.11 （ENGLISH)

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5No. 11 AUTUMN 2017Japanese companies involvedCivil engineering, construction work, etc.Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.Turbines and power-generating facilitiesTOSHIBA CORPORATIONBoilersMitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Table 1: Unit 5 & 6 Expansion Project at the Tanjung Jati B coal-red power plant (scheduled to be put into operation in 2021). Alongside Indonesian companies, SUMITOMO CORPORATION and THE KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC. have invested in the corporation that will construct, own, and operate the power plant.This expansion project is also nanced by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. It provides nancial support for overseas infrastructure projects where Japanese companies make investments and utilize their advanced skills in long-term operation and management. This is a good example of how SMEs like FUJIMOTO KIKOH support part of projects, implemented in line with the Infrastructure System Export Strategy of the Japanese government.This time, your company has decided to use the Carbon Reduction Technology Promotion Program as part of your human resource development efforts for PT. Indo Fuji Energi. Could you give us the background to this and tell us about your human resource development plan?Since the foundation, PT. Indo Fuji Energi has always been giving utmost importance to human resource development. The company sent local employees to Japan for training at regular intervals from 1990, immediately after the foundation, to 2008, using the AOTS’s training programs. Aside from having improved their technical skills through training in Japan, founding staff members went back home with knowledge on the Japanese way of getting business done. The abilities that they had developed in Japan have been highly evaluated in various project sites in Indonesia, leading to increased plant construction work contracts with Japanese companies. The company has a proven track record of obtaining several contracts for installation and long-term mainte-nance of power-generating facilities. In fact, engineers who had been trained under the AOTS’s programs played such important roles as site managers for the construction of Units 3 and 4 at the Tanjung Jati, and supported successful construction of the units.The reason for our using the AOTS’s training for the rst time in eight years was that PT. Indo Fuji Energi is now facing a shift in generations, and has a new need of developing young leaders. As most of the former training participants have left the sites for promotion into management, we have felt it necessary to send a younger generation of career-track employees, who are at the forefront of construction work, for training in Japan. After all these years, we are now taking on a new leader development plan supported by the AOTS’s training programs. Featuring the ultra-super critical coal ring technology, the Tanjung Jati Units 5 and 6 are more efcient than the conventional Units 3 and 4; and thereby are expected to provide a much greater CO2 emis-sion reduction effect. In more specic terms, they will achieve a CO2 emission reduction of 500,000 ton, while generating 680 MW more electricity. In other words, providing training to candidates for core personnel for power plant equipment installation will lead to a reduction in CO2 emissions. This understanding was behind our use of the Carbon Reduction Technology Promotion Program.Could you elaborate on the contents of the training and how they have been doing after returning home?In FY2016, we selected six supervisors with a work experience of 6–20 years in construction sites. They rst attended a 13-week General Orientation Course, organized at an AOTS Kenshu Center, focusing on the study of Japanese language, culture and society. After that, they underwent Specialized Technical Training at the Nishi-Nagoya Thermal Power Station (Ama County, Aichi Prefecture), run by Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., for eight months.The training focused on the skills on various issues regarding large-scale turbine power generators, including installation, long-term maintenance, foundation work, as well as quality control from the stage of assembly work to completion. As the training was provided in a real-life power station, they were also given an opportunity to receive the same safety education as that of Japanese employees.After the training program, the training instructor said: “The training participants have deepened their understanding of the overall ow of construction work, operations involved in all processes from installation work to trial operation, and hazard prediction activities. I am sure they will be able to put what they have learned and experienced here into practice in various other situations in the future. This is the kind of work in which even the most minor accidents can result in major disasters. I hope they can make effective use of the acquired knowledge of hazard predictions.” The training participants, who returned home after completing their training in Japan in March 2017, have wasted no time to become active at various sites, including those for the installation and construction of machines and power facili-ties in the Kamojang Geothermal Power Plant Extension Project (a capacity of 30 MW) in Kamojang in West Java. The effect of their training has been keenly felt. We hope that after gaining more experience through their current assignments, they will work as core members in the Units 5 & 6 Expansion Project at Tanjung Jati.Given that the energy-saving potential of geothermal power generation is far greater than that of thermal power generation as an industrial eld, the project in Kamojang has also signicantly been contributing to carbon reduction in Indonesia. The former AOTS training participants are anticipated to be more involved in the planned Unit 5 & 6 Expansion Project at Tanjung Jati. Thank you very much today.Training at Nishi-Nagoya Thermal Power Station (training participant on left)Former trainee (with a white helmet on) engaged in installation work in the Kamojang Geothermal Power Plant