No Longer The Social Assistance Semi Scheme, Here Are The 4 Latest Facts Of The 2023 Pre-Employment Card Program

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto ensured that the Pre-Employment Card program would continue this year.

According to the plan, the program's first selection will open in the first quarter of 2023.

Unlike the previous year, in 2023, the Pre-Employment Card has several changes related to the terms and conditions for its implementation, one of which is about the scheme.

In previous years, the Pre-Employment Card Program used a semi-social assistance (bansos) scheme, but now Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga has turned it into a normal scheme.

Based on information from the Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto, with the change in the scheme from semi-social assistance to a normal scheme, this allows social assistance recipients to participate in the Pre-Employment Card program.

Airlangga invites people who have previously been registered as recipients of other social assistance, such as wage subsidies, MSME cash assistance (BPUM), to the family hope program, to now be able to participate in the pre-employment card program.

"Because the 2023 Pre-Employment Card is no longer semi-social assistance, aid recipients such as BSU, BPUM, PKH can receive Pre-Employment Cards, because this is for reskilling, not social assistance anymore," said Airlangga recently.

In the 2022 Pre-Employment Card program, the incentives received by participants were only IDR 3.5 million, while in 2023, the incentives to be received by participants were IDR 4.2 million.

In addition, Pre-Employment Card participants will get two opportunities to fill out a survey this year.

In filling out this survey, participants will get an incentive of IDR 150,000. This amount is different from the previous one which only received IDR 100,000 in one survey filling.

The new scheme of the 2023 Pre-Employment Card has an impact on the duration of the training that must be followed by all Pre-Employment Card participants.

In the previous policy, the minimum duration of training was only six hours, but in 2023 it changed to 15 hours or longer.

This year's Pre-Employment Card Program training will be carried out online, offline, and mixed.

Coordinating Minister Airlangga said, for the initial stage of offline training, the plan would be carried out in 10 provinces.

"Offline gradually began in 10 provinces and the opening of the first wave was carried out in the first quarter of 2023," said Airlangga.

The ten provinces that will conduct offline training in the early waves include DKI Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, West Kalimantan, Bali, North Sumatra, South Sulawesi, NTT, and Papua.