Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology has developed a new curriculum for vocational schools for boosting their cooperation with the industry, the ministry's director general of vocational education, Wikan Sakarinto, has said.

"The vocational school curriculum has been revamped with hundreds of industries, and we have named it the 'prototype curriculum'. It cuts the subjects that are technical competencies but are without context, and we have changed it to project-based learning," Sakarinto informed at the 'Vocational Tower 2021' celebration here on Tuesday.

He said project-based learning will be carried out differently so students can get used to real projects in the industry.

He then lauded regional efforts that have successfully helped form a pentahelix-based partnership (coordination between the government, academicians, communities, business players, and the media) that is functioning as a "regional accelerator".

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The commitment to realizing vocational education that is relevant to industry needs is more important than the 'Vocational Tower 2021' celebration itself, he remarked. The partnership program also aims to strengthen the local economy, he said.

According to Sakarinto, vocational education cannot take place in isolation. "We need to leave traditional ways of teaching that are irrelevant to the industry, which moves rapidly," he said.

The "regional accelerator" covers the super-priority destination program and economic development in the outermost, remote, and underdeveloped (3T) areas that need more qualified human resources from local vocational school graduates, he explained.

For the Vocational Tower program, five vocational colleges have been appointed as program implementers: Medan State Polytechnic, Bengkalis State Polytechnic (Riau), Banjarmasin State Polytechnic, El Bajo Commodus Polytechnic (Labuan Bajo), and Ujung Pandang State Polytechnic (Kolaka).

Before the celebration, each of the polytechnics met for a discussion with partners, associations, local governments, and DUDI (business and industry players) to arrange a partnership roadmap that is sustainable, Sakarinto informed. (

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