The offline training will gradually begin in 10 provinces.
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto stated that implementation of the Pre-Employment Card Program will continue with the normal scheme, or no longer use the semi-social assistance scheme.

"The Pre-Employment Card Program will resume in 2023 with a normal scheme, or no longer use the semi-social assistance scheme, as stipulated in Presidential Regulation Number 113 of 2022," he noted at a virtual press conference on Thursday.

In addition to the presidential regulation, implementation of the program is regulated by Regulation of the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Number 17 of 2022.

The Pre-Employment Card Program offers free assistance to its participants to attend trainings and classes to learn for various occupational and entrepreneurial skills.

"The scheme has changed significantly, as the budget has declined, from Rp18 trillion (in 2022) to Rp2.67 trillion (in 2023),” the coordinating minister stated.

He remarked that the Rp2.67-trillion budget was allocated for 595 thousand participants.

However, the government has determined that the number of participants of the program in 2023 will be increased to one million people, he remarked.

“Thus, we need an additional budget of Rp1.7 trillion this year (in 2023)," he noted.

The additional budget will be disbursed for about 400 thousand additional participants.

Meanwhile, realization of the Pre-Employment Card Program budget in 2022 reached Rp17.84 trillion out of the Rp18-trillion budget, or absorbed 99.12 percent, which were disbursed to 4,984,790 participants.

Furthermore, Hartarto invited all training institutions throughout Indonesia to support implementation of the program.

Nonetheless, the institutions were required to partake in training provider assessment before being allowed to conduct training for the Pre-Employment Card Program's participants. The institutions will also be selected by a team of independent experts.

"The compliance of the institutions on the training standards will also be monitored,” the coordinating minister stated.

He appealed to training institutions interested to support the program to contact one of the learning platforms that work with the Pre-Employment Card Program, one of which is the Manpower Ministry’s online-based integrated employment service, Sisnaker

The government also invites the community to participate in the program through a public-private partnership scheme to conduct online, offline, and hybrid trainings in the field of development of human resources.

"The offline training will gradually begin in 10 provinces. The first wave (of offline training) will be inaugurated in the first quarter of 2023 in Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, West Kalimantan, North Sumatra, South Sulawesi, Bali, East Nusa Tenggara, and Papua," Hartarto added.

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