The Center for Instructors and Advanced Skill Training (CIAST) is located in Shah Alam, Selangor. CIAST has commenced operations in 1983 with financial assistance from the Government of Japan under the ASEAN Human Resource Development Project and was regulated by technical and management experts from Japan through JICA until 1991. CIAST operates fully under the Manpower Department, Ministry of Human Resources from 1991 until May 2007 before its management was transferred under the Ministry of Skills Development (JPK) in the same ministry in June 2007.