Airlangga Brings Good News: Starting July 2022 Pre-Employment Card Training Held Face-to-face

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JAKARTA - The government through the Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto informed the latest scheme in the implementation of the Pre-Employment Card Program for the 2022 period.

"In the next six months (from July to December 2022) it is hoped that we will be able to make programs that are offline and not just online," he said in the BeritaSatu webinar on Monday, November 22.

According to Airlangga, so far the implementation of pure training has been carried out through virtual channels taking into account the COVID-19 factor in the country. Meanwhile, for the first half of 2022 the government is still running the same scheme as it is today.

"In the next six months (January to June 2022) the program is still the same," he said.

Airlangga himself said that the Pre-Employment Card Program received a fairly good response from the community. This is reflected in the large number of people who want to participate with a total of 75 million registrants. Of that number, 11.4 million of them have passed the selection and can follow the program as a whole.

"This Pre-Employment Card yesterday was assessed by the World Bank as one of the government's programs that was quite successful because it could provide access to capital for the community, increase purchasing power, and provide training according to the current situation," he explained.

For information, the Pre-Employment Card Program is included in the social protection cluster (perlinsos) in the 2021 National Economic Recovery (PEN) budget with a total budget of 186.64 trillion. Meanwhile, as of November 19, the realization of the social welfare cluster was Rp. 140.50 trillion, equivalent to 75.5 percent of the ceiling.

Meanwhile, for next year, the budget for the social protection cluster in the 2022 PEN is planned at Rp. 126.54 trillion or a decrease of around Rp. 60 trillion.