Coordinating Minister Airlangga: Pre-Employment Card Recipients Reach 17 Million Participants

Coordinating Minister Airlangga together with the Executive Director of Pre-Employment Management Denni Puspa Purbasari interacted with Pre-Employment alumni in Cirebon, Friday (16/6/2023) (ANTARA/Bayu Saputra)

Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto said that since 2020 until now the recipients of the Pre-Employment Card program have reached 17 million participants.

"The recipients have more than 17 million, so it is quite massive and around 54 percent of women and most of their education is under high school, and after graduating we see some of them get new jobs, some become entrepreneurs or MSMEs. Well, this is what we want to continue to empower," said Coordinating Minister Airlangga in Cirebon as reported by ANTARA, Saturday, June 17. He conveyed this while attending an alumni meeting at the Nere Cafe, Cirebon. The event was attended by hundreds of alumni of the Pre-Employment program from six districts in West Java.

Until now, the Pre-Employment Card program has been implemented in 514 districts/cities. For 2023, the program is targeted to reach 1 million participants with a total budget of IDR 4.37 trillion.

By using a normal scheme, in the early stages of the Pre-Employment Card program, it will spend a budget mandate of IDR 2.67 trillion to achieve the target of 595 thousand people.

Coordinating Minister Airlangga is optimistic because the Pre-Employment Card program is the first social assistance program (bansos) to use education and training schemes, as well as an effective G-to-P program in reaching the community.

"So with the Project Management Office (PMO) that is enough, and this is the first service from GovernmenttoCitizen, Government to People. And this is the first E-government in Indonesia, of course this can be an example, and other public service benchmarks," said Coordinating Minister Airlangga.

In the event entitled 'Gampul Jeh karo Coordinating Minister for the Economy', Coordinating Minister Airlangga together with the Executive Director of Pre-Employment Management Denni Puspa Purbasari interacted freely with alumni, to get input.

One of the Pre-Employment alumni from Indramayu, Syarif Fauzi, admitted that thanks to participating in the Pre-Employment Card program, he is currently able to run the Angkringan business to have five Angkringan branches.

"I am one of the alumni who really helped from Pre-Employment, because I took MSME training, and the next three months I was desperate to open MSMEs until now, thank God," he said.