Coordinating Minister For Human Development And Culture Muhadjir Says Indonesia's Human Resources Development Is Disturbed Due To COVID-19 Anomaly

Screenshot of the PMK Sector Briefing event attended online from the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture's YouTube in Jakarta, Wednesday, December 29, (Photo: Andi Firdaus/Antara)

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendy said the COVID-19 pandemic triggered an anomaly that disrupted Indonesia's 2020-2021 human resource development program.

"Two years have passed in which we were in an abnormal situation due to COVID-19, while the budget in ministries and agencies was also severely affected, namely the existence of a budget 'refocusing' program," he said when opening the PMK Sector Taklimat "#Unggul HR, Indonesia Maju" which was followed by the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture's YouTube in Jakarta, as reported by Antara, Wednesday, December 29.

The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture, which oversees seven ministries/agencies, has compiled a "human development cycle" workflow or Indonesian human development cycle in order to build human resources.

The flow starts from the prenatal stage which is related to solving the problem of stunting, early childhood, elementary education age, junior high school age and equivalent, high school age and equivalent as a stage to prepare for entry into productive human resources, productive age but delays due to entering college, working-age between 17-65 years to the elderly.

"All these cycles are intervened by the state in an effort to build Indonesian human resources, referring to the target of the President's vision until 2024 in the cycle of human development and Indonesian culture," he said.

However, he said, in the last two years the Indonesian nation was in an anomaly atmosphere that had an impact on human resource development programs.

"In accordance with the anomalous character, it must be chaotic, starting with COVID-19, then the impact on the threat to the social and economic safety net is experiencing hibernation. Therefore, the government has taken a 'refocusing' policy, all of the budgets are directed at handling COVID-19," he said.

As a result, said Muhadjir, work programs in ministries and institutions, including those under the coordination of the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture, also experienced anomalies.

The PMK Conference Agenda "#Excellent HR, Advanced Indonesia" is an effort to reflect on the work journey of the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture together with the seven ministries/agencies under it in the past year.

"We want to reflect on how the obstacles that have been faced by ministries and agencies when dealing with changes in budget adjustments and their achievements are not as expected if the budget is given normally," he said.

In addition, the agenda is a momentum for the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture to prepare a work program that will be carried out in 2022.

The ranks of officials who were directly present at the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture in Central Jakarta included Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini, Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection I Gusti Ayu Bintang Darmawati, Head of the National Disaster Management Agency Lt. Gen. TNI Suharyanto.

In addition, the Head of the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency Penny K. Lukito, BPJS Health President Director Ali Ghufron Mukti, and BPJS Employment Director Anggoro Eko Cahyo.