Ministry Of Education And Culture Allocates IDR 109.85 Billion To Strengthen Digital Education Platform

Minister of Education and Culture Nadiem Anwar Makarim (Photo: Indriani / Antara)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Education and Culture has budgeted Rp.109.85 billion in 2021 which will be used to strengthen digital education platforms.

Minister of Education and Culture Nadiem Anwar Makarim in his statement in Jakarta, Friday said the strengthening of the educational platform aims to help schools.

"This is our big effort in school management, budget optimization, budget curriculum, and others," said Nadiem as quoted by Antara, Friday, September 4.

The Ministry of Education and Culture allocated a budget of IDR 1.49 trillion which is used for priority school digitization programs in 2021.

The school digitization program consists of strengthening the digital platform of IDR 109.85 billion, learning content in the TVRI program of IDR 131 billion, learning materials and digital education media models of IDR 74.02 billion, and providing educational facilities or ICT equipment of IDR 1.175 trillion.

Previously at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Education and Culture collaborated with a private education platform to organize online learning.

The CEO of the Zenius learning platform, Sabda PS, said the learning platform has been proven to help student learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"From the survey, it was found that as many as 14,521 Zenius users successfully passed the SBMPTN out of a total of more than 24,000 users who have responded. The number of respondents from this survey will still continue to increase every day," said Sabda.

This shows that the learning platform is proven to help students learn. Sabda is proud of the achievements and responses given by Zenius users.

Sabda states that out of 713,230 participants registered at the Higher Education Entrance Test Institution, our internal data records that at least 189,000 are users.

In addition, since April there has been an increase in the number of users ahead of the SBMPTN, which has increased by more than 300 percent compared to last year.

Those users who successfully passed get seats in 85 state universities (PTN) and 8 selected state polytechnics throughout Indonesia.

"We are happy to be able to help struggle and take them to the college they dream of. Our hope is that through the teaching received it can form reasoning and basic critical and scientific thinking skills that will be useful for their future, as well as create a love of learning so that they become individuals. who continues to want to develop himself, "said Sabda again.