Google Officially Opens The 2023 Rising Program To Create Digital Talents

Randy Jusuf, Managing Director, Google Indonesia (photo: YouTube Google Indonesia)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) and the Google search giant officially opened the Bangkit 2023 program on Monday, February 20.

According to a Google statement, 5,000 students from 67,000 students have registered to take part in the "Bangkit" program. batch one which starts today until June 2023.

Bangkit is one of the programs that is the pride of all of us and answers the need also the current industry's active role in digital talents in Indonesia," explained Director General of Higher Education, Prof. Ir. Nizam in the virtual opening of the Bangkit program, Monday, February 20.

Program Bangkit merupakan program yang dirancang dengan curricula yang solid yang mengambiningkan pembelajaran mandiri dan pembelajaran langsung untuk tiga jalur belajar utama yaitu Machine Learning, Mobile Development, dan Cloud Computing, yang telah diluncurkan sejak 2020 lalu.

Not only did they pass 900 hours of Informatics Engineering (IT) lessons, the participants also received soft skills and English training. With this program, it is hoped that new talents will be able to give birth to digital transformation that will accelerate Indonesia's future.

Google hopes to have a greater impact with the opening of the opportunity for the number of participants to be three times last year. We want to embrace more female participants, vocational students, people with disabilities, non-IT participants, and also students from small and medium cities," explained Randy Jusuf, Managing Director of Google Indonesia.

Over the past two years, Google and the Directorate General of Education and Technology have supported the incubation of 30 startup candidates who have implemented the knowledge they have gained in the Bangkit program to solve real problems that exist in society.

"Currently, the development of the digital economy in Indonesia is developing positively. This encourages the creation of high-skilled jobs that are wide open to Indonesia's young generation. We believe that Bangkit graduates can advance to become the high-time talent the industry is looking for," concluded Randy.

Together with the Directorate General of Diktiristek and founding partners at GoTo, Traveloka, Deeptech, as well as partner universities and recruitment companies, Google hopes to maintain the gold standard of this Merdeka Campus program. The second batch will start in July 2023 and open up opportunities for 4,000 participants.