Jokowi: Optimizing KIP To Prepare Global Human Resources

Screenshot - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) during a dialogue with one of the recipients of the Smart Indonesia Card (KIP) program in the agenda of handing over the assistance of the Smart Indonesia Program in Blora Regency, Central Java

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) invites parents to optimally utilize the Smart Indonesia Card (KIP) education financing program to prepare human resources capable of competing globally.

"We know that future competition is not getting easier and more difficult. Human resources are the key to competition between countries, competition between individuals and individuals, our children must go to school all of them," said President Jokowi during a speech on the agenda for the Delivery of Smart Indonesia Program Assistance in Blora Regency, Central Java. reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, January 23.

Diikuti dalam jaringan (oning) Sekretariat Presiden di Jakarta, Presiden Jokowi menyebut program KIP yang dialokasikan senilai Rp11 triliun untuk 20 juta siswa SD, SMP, SMA/SMK.

President Jokowi said KIP for elementary school students was given assistance of IDR 450 thousand per student, junior high school was given budget assistance of IDR 750 thousand per student, and SMA/SMK IDR 1.8 million per student after experiencing an increase in the budget from the previous IDR 1 million per student.

In addition, the government has also allocated Rp12.8 trillion in funds for KIP Lectures which have now been absorbed to finance 960 thousand students.

The education program also includes scholarships organized by the Education Fund Management Institute (LPDP) for domestic and foreign tuition purposes.

"Once again, the government has provided this, so it must be used as much as possible," he said.

Jokowi reminded that KIP funds should be fully used for various things related to school needs, such as stationery, uniform, to books.

"Can you buy credit or not? You can't buy credit. This is all remembered," he said.

One of the KIP recipients from SMK PGRI Blora, Yeni Sujaryani, on the occasion of having a dialogue with the President said that she had received KIP assistance from elementary school until now through the registration of the program at school.

He will use Rp1.8 million in aid from the government for the need to buy school equipment.

"The book, bag, uniform and stationery," Yeni said when asked by the President regarding the allocation of KIP funds she received.

Yeni said she wanted to work immediately after graduating from vocational school to help her parents.