Wow, 62.7 Million People Enrolled Pre-Employment Cards

Illustration - Beneficiary residents show their Pre-employment Card (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said 62,790,238 people had registered for the Pre-Employment Card Program.

"The registrants are 62.7 million people covering 513 districts/cities and the recipients of batches 12-16 are 2,730,356," said Coordinating Minister Airlangga during an online media meeting in Jakarta, as reported by Antara, Wednesday, May 19.

Among the applicants for the Pre-Work Card, the Coordinating Minister for Airlangga continued, 2,730,357 had purchased training and 2,601,513 people had received incentives or IDR 4 trillion worth of incentives had been disbursed.

The Coordinating Minister for Airlangga said that 88.9 percent of pre-employment card recipients admitted that the participants' work skills had improved, 81.2 percent used incentives to buy daily necessities, and more than 94 percent used training to improve skills in the form of skilling, reskilling, and upskilling.

"Regarding employment, 35 percent changed from not getting a job to working with 17 percent becoming entrepreneurs," said the Coordinating Minister for Airlangga.

As for the first semester of 2021, the Pre-Work Card Program prepares a budget of IDR 10 trillion with 12 waves of 600 thousand participants and a target of 2.7 million participants. The value of benefits to be received by the Pre-Work Card Program recipients consists of training assistance of IDR 1 million, incentives post-training with a total of IDR 2.4 million (IDR 600 thousand x 4 months), and post-survey incentives totaling IDR 150 thousand (IDR 50,000 x 3 surveys).

The pre-employment card is one of the social protection programs (Perlinsos) included in the efforts to restore the national economy in 2021 with an allocation of the social welfare fund of IDR 150.88 trillion.