Photo: Participating in the Innovation Festival (Innofest) are Korindo Group’s subsidiary representatives
BEKASI – At the 2025 New Year Opening Ceremony in Korindo HQ, Senior Vice Chairman Robert Seung called change and innovation a “necessity” amid the growing competition and other mounting challenges.
This statement was highlighted by Korindo’s HRD & GA Executive Director Lee Sunghoon at the Innovation Festival (Innofest) kick-off Tuesday (1/21). “Korindo Group’s Innovation Festival is back this year with a bigger goal: amplifying the culture of innovation in the company. This idea of change and innovation, and their importance for Korindo, were brought up in [our senior vice chairman’s] speech at the new year opening ceremony,” said Lee in his greetings.
Innovation Festival (Innofest) is an annual event involving representatives of Korindo Group’s subsidiaries. Held at Amarossa Hotel in Bekasi this year, it is a program initiated by the Learning and Innovation Center to encourage the creation of new tools and processes in the company.
“The goal is making both change and innovation a part of the tradition at Korindo Group. As the senior vice chairman said, the company will be able to survive through improvements in its processes. So, the main purpose of Innofest is to grow that passion for continuous transformation and the generation of inventions until both practices become common and ingrained in our organization,” said HRD&GA’s General Manager Setiyono.
If last year the festival focused on developing “innovation coordinators” at every business unit, this time it revolves around “innovation mentors”, whose job is to assist the coordinators in ensuring bigger and better innovation activities get implemented.
Photo: Innofest features workshops, mentoring from the Learning and Innovation Center, and a site visit to BRJ
The event drew praise from participants. Among them was Halen G. Mogot from Asiki Regional III’s management, who saw company innovation as essential and a “main pillar” of business development and refinement in today’s more competitive landscape.
“Innofest is a great event for me personally, because we get to gain new knowledge, insight, and competency on innovation [as a concept and practice] that we can later expand in our workspace. But what’s more is that employees from different companies get to meet and bond with each other.”
Korindo Aria Bima Sari’s Agyt Tresna Budi Pratama felt that as well. “What I hope to get [from Innofest] is problem-solving and root cause identification skills. It would be nice to improve both. I also hope this event runs every year and produces exceptional mentors for every business unit.”
Themed “Embracing Change & Innovation”, the 2025 Innofest featured workshops, mentoring from the Learning and Innovation Center, and a site visit to Korindo Group’s logistics company Bimaruna Jaya (BRJ). (PR)
