JAKARTA - The government will continue the Pre-Employment Card Program in 2023 after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides.

The Pre-Employment Card Program now focuses on increasing competence, productivity, entrepreneurship, and the competitiveness of the workforce.

The Pre-Employment Card Program this time will be carried out under a normal scheme.

Then when will the 48 Pre-Employment Card Wave be opened?

Director of Communication, Partnership Program, and Ecosystem Development Kurniasih Suditomo said the government would provide direct training assistance balances to participants for the skills, reskilling, and upskilling of participant skills through the online and offline training ecosystem.

The opening of the first wave of the normal scheme (wave 48) will be carried out in the first quarter of 2023. We are still in the process of praying that more training institutions will register, and we will also have a selection process," he said in a press conference, in Jakarta, Wednesday, January 18.

Kurniasi admitted that he could not confirm exactly when the 48 wave would open.

Even so, he emphasized that if all training institutions have appeared on the Pre-Employment web, the implementing management will immediately open registration.

"Once it's all ready, then we open the waves, if everyone is not ready, they don't dare to open the waves, because they will be the providers of the training and we hope that from sabang to Merauke, any training lembaga can participate in the selection," he said.

For your information, in this normal scheme, the cost assistance that will be provided is IDR 4,200,000 per person.

The details, training costs Rp. 3,500,000, post-training incentives of Rp. 600,000 which will be given once. Then, the survey filling incentive is Rp. 100,000.

Here are the requirements and how to register for pre-employment card participants:

Pre-employment card registration can be done through the pre-employment website.go.id, along with the steps:


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