"The government is making efforts to improve the quality of human resources through variety of methods on account of how important it is for a nation," the minister stated during the signing of the MoU of the Freedom Study Program here on Friday.
The Freedom Study policy by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology offers freedom to students to study in a different manner as compared to the university that they attend.
One of the study methods is by placing students in a real-world environment, so that they can apply the knowledge they gained to tackle challenges in the working world.
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Indrawati remarked that students can learn how to work in the real world while also learning to understand and exercise self-restraint since they are encountering challenges that are quite different from that in the campus world.
Students will learn to become responsible human beings since they will enter a phase of life in which they participate in a decision-making process, she emphasized.
The decision-making process will involve risks that will impact the place that they are working in, so students are trained to be prepared for every possibility, according to the minister.
Indrawati explained that if students are training or undergoing internship at the Ministry of Finance, then any consequence of the decision they took will impact the performance, achievement, and reputation of the institution.
The minister expressed hope that the collaboration between universities and the public as well as private institutions would continue to support the success of the Freedom Study for the betterment of the youth.
"Both these worlds have to communicate with each other to provide feedback to one another," she asserted.
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Translator: Astrid Habibah, Fadhli Ruhman
Editor: Suharto
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