GE experience comes to Indonesia

JAKARTA. General Electric Indonesia plans to open a learning center to allow its corporate customers, primarily state-owned companies, to get the benefit of the GE experience that made its parent company one of the largest and best-run companies in the world.

The center will run programs to provide technical and leadership classes, GE Indonesia CEO Handry Satriago said on Monday.

"We are the mecca for practical management. In the business world, people are dying to get the opportunity to learn from this," he said.

US-based General Electric Co., better known as GE, currently ranks third on the Forbes Global 2000 list. It has won global recognition and awards for leadership, brand reputation, green innovations, most-admired company and innovative company.

The learning center will link GE with its corporate customers, Handry said, adding that the trainers would come from among scholars, GE international and local staff members.

GE Indonesia acts primarily as a supplier to other companies. About 70 percent of its business comes from state-owned companies, including power company PLN, railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) and flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia. GE also supplies medical equipment like computed-tomography (CT) scanners and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).