15-Oct-18, Retail In Asia
Jack Ma, executive chairman of China's Alibaba Group Holding, plans to open an institute to train thousands of tech entrepreneurs in Indonesia, where he is already an adviser to the government on e-commerce. The Jack Ma Institute of Entrepreneurs aims to train 1,000 tech leaders a year over the next 10 years.
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"We’re giving a lot of opportunities for young Indonesian people to learn," said Ma, co-founder of Alibaba, China’s biggest e-commerce firm. He said it is important for Indonesia to invest in human capital because "only when people improve, when people's minds change, when people's skills improve, then we can enter the digital period".