IT Internship Program for SMEs

Jakarta - the financial crisis makes small medium business (SMEs) strict the budget for technology information(IT). Therefore they are very happy with the IT internship program.

The Internship program titled Industry Attachment Program (IAP) was initiated by Senada and Cisco. In Jakarta, a number of students from the University of Bina Nusantara (BiNus) get internship opportunities in a number of SMEs.

the SMEs also seem happy with this program. For example Multichem Indojasa Artaprima PT, a firm metal services penyepuhan, says that they doesn’t know how to manage their limited IT budget.

"Maybe later, if students have internships in our firm, we can manage our budget IT and spend it well. Exactly, we do not know about what IT products that we need," said Ula Fauzi, Director of Marketing Multichem Indojasa Artaprima the told to detikINET on the sidelines of the event conference kick-off in the IAP Campus BiNus Syahdan, Jakarta, Tuesday (23/12/2008).

Ula also confess, that their company is in the domino effect of the crisis that is happening at this time. The decline in orders from customers to reach 20 percent.

By this internship program,Ula said, the company is to be able to operate well. "The Students of the program can help us help us to create a company database, and payroll, and network internal.

Senior Advisor ICT Industry Farid Maruf also says that SMEs need to be encouraged to optimize the utilization of IT that can support their business activities. Meanwhile, for students, Farid hope they can replicate the program in the future.
(Wsh / wsh)