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Helping individuals grow based on their potential through learning, assessment, and development support.
Vision, mission, projects, and roadmap.
Smart PHCM serves as the umbrella brand identity for the learning, assessment, advisory, and human capital development initiatives operated under Yayasan Dharma Bermakna. Founded by George Tahija and Laurel Tahija, the foundation has long carried a mission of contributing to people development and education in Indonesia. During the COVID-19 period, Yayasan Dharma Bermakna was entrusted to Abi Jabar, who began a new chapter by preparing fresh initiatives to revive, renew, and carry forward the foundation’s mission for the future.
Vision
To become a trusted partner in building smarter, future-ready:
- individuals in a community or an organisation setting;
- human capital management systems in an organisation setting.
Smart PHCM pursues this vision using research-based theories and practices combined with local Indonesian culture and wisdom.
Mission
- Support individuals to achieve their highest potential in education, career, and personal life through counselling practices by certified psychologists and education specialists.
- Support organisations to enhance their human capital management practices by combining research-based theories and practices in management and psychology, practical HR knowledge, structured transformation methods, and technology-enabled thinking.
- Help leaders strengthen people management capability.
- Support HR teams with practical frameworks, tools, and implementation guidance.
- Promote better alignment between people, process, technology, and business goals.
- Encourage continuous learning in the organisation.
- Publish books based on self-conducted research and/or compilations of best practices from research applied to the Indonesian context.
Focus Areas
Smart PHCM organises its work around three complementary service areas.
Human Capital Management
Building the capacity of HR and human capital functions through practical frameworks, implementation guidance, and transformation support.
Top Management
Providing advisory support to help top management navigate organisational transformation and people-related priorities.
AJT CogTest: A Journey to Build Indonesia’s Own Cognitive Assessment
AJT CogTest began with a bold question: could Indonesia build a cognitive assessment that was not merely adapted from overseas instruments, but truly grounded in Indonesian educational realities, language, culture, and student diversity?
The project brought together Yayasan Dharma Bermakna, PT Melintas Cakrawala Indonesia, and the Faculty of Psychology at Universitas Gadjah Mada. With guidance from international and Indonesian experts in psychometrics and CHC theory, the team designed a cognitive test battery intended to help schools and psychologists see each learner more completely.
Challenge
Indonesia needed a comprehensive cognitive assessment built for local context, rather than relying mainly on imported or adapted instruments.
Approach
The project combined CHC theory, expert psychometric supervision, item development, pilot testing, revision, and national-scale norming.
Contribution
AJT CogTest offers educators and psychologists a richer way to understand student potential, learning challenges, and individual cognitive profiles.
Source Note
The full story is written in the book The Making of AJT CogTest.
HR Professional Development Program: Building Technology-Ready HR Professionals
The next Smart PHCM initiative is the HR Professional Development Program, a structured learning journey designed for Indonesian HR professionals who must grow beyond administration and become credible partners in business, technology, compliance, and organisational transformation.
The framework combines global HR standards with local realities such as BPJS, PPh 21, THR, e-Bupot, Indonesian HRIS platforms, and the maturity level of HR practices in Indonesian organisations.
Purpose
To help HR professionals build the knowledge, judgement, technology literacy, and confidence required to lead modern HR transformation.
Learning Journey
The program progresses from Foundation to Intermediate and Advanced levels, supported by Indonesian HR Technology, Five Pillar HR Technology Framework, assessment, certification guidance, and a capstone project.
Target Participants
HR practitioners, HR leaders, payroll and HRIS professionals, consultants, and professionals preparing for HR certification or a broader transformation role.
Expected Outcome
Participants will be able to connect HR practice, business outcomes, technology adoption, data discipline, compliance, and organisational maturity into one practical roadmap.