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One of the world's leading telecom networking and
manufacturing companies, Huawei Technologies, has pledged to boost
investment in human resource development in order to support the
company's expanding business in Indonesia.
"We already have vital operations here. Therefore we require more and
more local people to support the operations," Huawei corporate
communication director Fu Jun told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
Currently, Huawei serves over 300 telecommunication operators including
28 of the world's top 50 operators with its products and technical
solutions adopted in more than 100 countries by more than one billion
users globally. The company's global sales in 2005 reached US$8.2
billion and is projected to increase to US$11 million this year.
Headquartered in Shenzhen, China, Huawei has over 44,000 employees,
more than 400 of whom are Indonesian, who mostly work to support the
operation of the company's partners in the country.
Huawei provides telecommunication networks both for CDMA and GSM
operators. The company's partners in Indonesia include Bakrie Telecom,
Indosat and Telkom.
"Our investment in Indonesia right now is not really in manufacturing
plants but rather in the development of human capital," Jun said.
"We will train more local talent and engineers, with the hope that we
can use their experience in global communication technologies so that
they can contribute to Indonesia's growth in the communication sector,"
he added.
Just last month, the company donated a sophisticated Next Generation
Networks telecommunication system worth US$3.6 million to the
University of Indonesia.
The donation was in fact part of an agreement signed during President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's trip to China last year, where Beijing
offered assistance to help Indonesia to improve its information and
communication technology.
Information and Communications Ministry then appointed the university
as a training center for students and engineers alike.
Huawei itself has paid great attention to research and development.
Each year, it invests no less than 10 percent of its sales revenue in
R&D.
Around 48 percent of the company employees are engaged in R&D
activities, which are distributed in eight research centers all around
the globe including in India, the U.S., the Netherlands, Sweden, Russia
and China.
Its R&D centers in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Nanjing (all in China) and
Bangalore (India) have achieved CMM Level 5 certification from the
Software Engineering Institute, a testimony to the company's commitment
to world-class software development process management and quality
control.
As of 2005, Huawei has applied for more than 14,000 patents, with 2,000
applications filed and approved internationally.
"Our success does not come from providing low prices for our partners
but through providing innovations and solutions that can cut down
operating costs by 30 to 40 percent," Jun said.
Jun cited an experience with a European telecom company where Huawei
had come up with an innovation called the distributed base system,
which incorporated a compact hardware that could be integrated into the
existing system, hence reducing costs.
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