"Transmigration is a pioneer of development,"
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Transmigration is planning to team up with the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology to develop new economic centers in transmigration areas through three programs.

These programs are targeted to increase access to education and develop industrialization.

Transmigration Minister M. Iftitah Sulaiman Suryanagara said his party is currently improving the transmigration program. It will not merely relocating people but also build a new integrated economic ecosystem in transmigration areas.

"Transmigration is a pioneer of development," he conveyed during his visit to the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology office, as quoted from a statement on Sunday.

According to him, increasing the capacity of transmigration participants is needed to realize this transformation. Therefore, his party is partnering with the education sector.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology, Satryo Soemantri Brodjonegoro, conveyed his party's readiness to assist the development of distance learning in collaboration with local universities, support the LPDP Patriot scholarship, and assist in developing industrialization in transmigration areas.

Earlier, Minister Suryanagara also attempted to establish collaboration with other stakeholders in the education sector such as the Endowment Fund for Education Agency (LPDP) of the Ministry of Finance in November 2024 to discuss the cooperation for the LPDP Patriot scholarship.

The Transmigration Ministry and LPDP planned to launch the Patriot Scholarship Program in 2025 as part of the Patriot Transmigration Program for the young generation interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Suryanagara addressed that the Patriot Transmigration Program and the LPDP Patriot Scholarship do not only target the children of transmigrants but young generations in general.

"Before we prepare their mentality, intelligence, and physicality through the Patriot Scholarship Program, we will first select these young people who have a patriotic character, namely those who are brave and willing to sacrifice for the nation and state," he remarked.



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Translator: Uyu Septiyati, Resinta Sulistiyandari
Editor: Arie Novarina
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