Empowerment of Human Resources in The Aspects of Economic Transformation During The Covid-19 Pandemic for Food & Beverage Industry

Abstract

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic that will not end soon, the Indonesia government has entered a New Normal condition by implementing several policies. The Indonesian government provides a policy of economic transformation to solve the nation’s various challenges in the economic sector. The economic transformation carried out by government focuses on exploiting regional potentials that have an impact on improving the quality of empowerment of human resources. And empowerment of human resources is one of the pillars of the economic transformation policy. Every of economic transformation has risks that can be resolved through efficiency and the use technology in order to achieve ideal economies of scale for each business sector. This research aims to analyze empowerment quality and competitive human resources in facing global challenges such as a Pandemic Covid19. The subject of this research is one of the food & beverage industry in Karawang, West Java. The research used descriptive analysis method and literature study. Moreover, the analysis was based on internal and external analysis (SWOT analysis). The result of this research are expected to find out the effect of empowerment of human resources on existing economic transformation policies in the Food & Beverage Industry, and without empowerment of human resources, the economic transformation can not be successful.