Register Now! Wave Of 16 Pre-Employment Cards Opened This Afternoon, Quoting 300,000 People

Illustration-Citizen beneficiaries showing pre-employment cards (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Admission of participants of the Batch 16 Pre-employment Card Program with a quota of 300,000 people will be opened on Thursday, March 24 this afternoon.

"Wave 16 will open this afternoon at 12.00 WIB with a quota of 300,000. Thus, our target to recruit 2.7 million in the first semester of 2021 is fulfilled," said Louisa Tuhatu, Head of Communication PMO Pre-Employment Cards, quoted from Antara.

"We will communicate the closing schedule soon," he continued.

Previously, the government had targeted that 2.7 million people were given pre-employment cards by the first semester in 2021 with a budget of IDR 10 trillion. The government is targeting 2.7 Pre-Employment Card participants to be achieved by March 2021.

The Pre-Work Card Program is a training assistance scheme which is accompanied by incentives during a pandemic.

Each participant will receive assistance of IDR 3,550,000, with details of IDR 1 million for training assistance, incentives after training IDR 600,000 per month for four months, and survey incentives IDR 150,000.

Regarding the addition of batches for the first semester, Loisa said that he was still monitoring the progress of the previous batch of Pre-Work Card recipients in purchasing the first training.

He referred to the Regulation of the Minister of the Economy Number 11 of 2020 concerning Work Competency Development through the Pre-Employment Card Program that participants must have purchased the first training within 30 days after being determined as recipients of the Pre-employment Card.

"If not, then the membership will be withdrawn. Later we may open additional waves to accommodate this," said Louisa.