“I hope that teachers would be able to take advantage of this opportunity, learn a lot, and establish as many friendships (and connections) as possible from all over Indonesia. Along the way, teachers will face various challenges and that is where the resilience (of teachers) as drivers of transformation and leaders of change will be tested,” Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Minister Nadiem Makarim noted in the opening ceremony here on Thursday.
The PGP program differs from the programs, as it is more comprehensive and helps teachers develop themselves, ranging from their technical abilities to the mindset as educators of the next generation.
Meanwhile, the Ministry’s Director of Principals, School Supervisors, and Education Personnel, Praptono, said that the program’s seventh batch is being attended by 18,079 prospective mobilizer teachers (CGP), comprising 17,885 regular CGP from 285 districts and cities in 32 provinces and 194 “CGP Cognitions.”
"This is the result of the selection of 220 thousand candidates, so on this occasion, let me congratulate the teachers, who have been determined qualified as participants in the Mobilizing Teachers Education program,” he stated.
After completing the educational program, he said the participants were expected to be ready to become leaders, supervisors, and structural officials in the field of education.
The seventh batch of the PGP program, held from October 20 to December 21, 2022, will be implemented in the 11 provinces of West Java, Yogyakarta, North Sumatra, Aceh, Bali, West Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, East Nusa Tenggara, West Sumatra, and South Sumatra.
The program will be continued on March 4 and will end at July 21, 2023.
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