Globalisation, together with the escalating levels of internationalisation of education, is placing emerging and unfamiliar pressures on the Indonesia vocational education and training system. Increasingly, Indonesia, like many other ASEAN nations, is being challenged by the growth of employee mobility and currently, their educational institutions struggle to provide the human resource development frameworks to build a modern skilled and efficient workforce. Recognising this need to meet these urgent demands for a modern skilled and trained workforce, the Indonesian government has focused on the introduction of advanced technical and vocational education through a ‘Revitalisation Program for Vocational Higher Education Institutions’. This program is designed to improve the relevance, engagement and understanding between vocational and higher education institutions with business and industry, but it often calls on international educational support. In this paper, we examine the implications of importing ‘external knowhow’ into the Indonesian vocational education and training sector, placing particular focus on culturally appropriate training models, the growing reliance on ‘external’ models of engagement, and the implications for appropriate and sustainable vocational training models. Central to this re-skilling of the vocational education and training sector, are programs that: address the human resource capability development of the educator workforce; build viable and sustainable links to industry in order to provide seamless workforce needs; explore and examine models for successful industry development; and nurture mutually beneficial ‘strategic partnerships’ both locally and internationally.

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The Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB) defines Industrialized Building System (IBS) as a construction technique in which components are manufactured in a controlled environment (on or off-site), positioned, transported and assembled into a structure with minimal additional site works. Such as, component that are being pre-fabricated in a controlled environment on-site are also considered as IBS. Main problem is when the contractors have bad workmanship while using pre-fabricated panels at site and IBS components are deliberated to be inflexible with respect to be changes or renovations. The aim of this research to identify the issues of compatibility of Interior construction in IBS components. This study will concentrate on interior construction works using of IBS components. The importance of this research is to establish design for solution the issues in using IBS components in interior constructions. This research also to develop design criteria of IBS components that have advantage and disadvantage in interior construction industry in Malaysia. According to this study, the availability of knowledge and information on IBS components for interior construction will be contribute to others. This research also develops new design criteria benefits to designer that using IBS components at site. In long term this research will implement as set of guidelines and additional knowledge that may encourage usage of user and CIDB.

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Perception of the physical self may influence physical activity behavior among the elderly. Thus, this study aims to determine the relationship between physical self-description, level of physical activity, and mental health status among 112 community-dwelling elderlies. Participants completed questionnaires assessing physical and global self-description (PSDQ), the physical activity scale for the elderly (PASE), and the depression, anxiety, and stress scale (DASS-21). Findings showed that physical self-description was associated with physical activity and mental health status. In conclusion, the belief system of the elderly ideally needs to be taken into consideration when designing interventions that aim to enhance physical activity behavior. Keywords: Elderly, Physical activity, Physical self-description, Mental Health eISSN: 2398-4287© 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI