Because (it has been refocused) to retraining and reskilling, and it is no longer a social assistance program.
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Participants of the Pre-Employment Card program will get benefits worth Rp4.2 million (US$268.8) under the resumed normal scheme in 2023, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto announced on Thursday.

The benefits comprise training classes worth Rp3.5 million (US$224), one-off transportation benefit valued at Rp600 thousand (US$38.4), and Rp100 thousand (US$6.4) for two surveys, the minister expounded.

"The training class benefits of the Pre-Employment Card program under the social assistance scheme were lower than the assistance value, but now, the training benefits are higher, which is at Rp3.5 million," Hartarto said at an online press conference, which was followed from here on Thursday.

Since the program is no longer a part of the semi-social assistance scheme, recipients of wage cash assistance are once again eligible to participate in the Pre-Employment Card program, he added.

"Because (it has been refocused) to retraining and reskilling, and it is no longer a social assistance program," the minister explained.

Hartarto said that participants of the normalized scheme will be required to attend 15 hours of training sessions, which will be longer compared to the program under the social assistance scheme, where participants were required to only attend 6 hours of online training sessions.

Offline activities will be organized for classes considered essential, such as skills included in Indonesia’s critical occupation list and the future of jobs report of the World Economic Forum, he informed.

"Those are business-related classes, such as digital marketing, data specialist, logistics manager, surveyor, and graphic design," the minister said.

Meanwhile, training sessions for manufacturing skills will consist of classes in production management, operational management, industry and production engineering, safety inspection, production quality control, and occupational health and safety, he disclosed.

The minister said that training classes in creative economic skills will comprise graphic design, layout design, and animation, while classes in engineering skills will include sessions on network engineering, computer science, and power plant operator studies.

"In the agriculture sector, we will provide training on farming skills, and in the services sector, training sessions will be on the courier, hospitality work, cleaning service, shopkeeping, and others," Hartarto added.

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