Strategy for Kleder Competency Improvement in The Camara Nusantara Cattle Ship

Abstract

Camara Nusantara ship was provided for livestock transportation especially cattle, to help increasing
efficiency and decrease weight losses in the supply chain process. There were, however, such poor cattle
performance was still found on the arrival port, which was claimed as related to the poor management
and less competence of working personnel on board, one of those was kleder. This study was aimed at
analyzing the strategy for increasing Human Resource competency in the Camara Nusantara Livestock
Ship. Method used in this study was observations on target location, documentation, literature review,
and depth interviews with target respondents in the respective locations, qualitative analysis approach
was applied for data analysis. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) with five levels were used to analyze
data obtained from the study. The results indicate that the main strategies for increasing the competency
of human resource in the Camara Nusantara Livestock Ship was started with development of competency
standardization with a weight of 0.361. Development of competency standards for kleder is required to
provide a guidelines for improving kleder’s skills and knowledge in managing and handling livestock
at Camara Nusantara Livestock Ship. It can be concluded that to optimize kleder competency who are
working at Camara Nusantara Cattle Ship may help to maintain cattle performance during the sea toll
transportation. Therefore, developing a national job competency standard, so called SKKNI (Standar
Kompetensi Kerja Nasional Indonesia) is needed as guidance to formulate relevant training programs
for human resource development.