Make Sure The Pre-Employment Card Program Continues In 2023, The Government Adds A Budget Of IDR 5 Trillion With Several Scheme Adjustments

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JAKARTA Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto ensured that the Pre-Employment Card program would continue in 2023 with several policy adjustments.

First, there will be an adjustment of the scheme from semi-social assistance (bansos) to a normal scheme. Second, related to the amount of training and incentive assistance.

"The government will increase the budget by Rp5 trillion with a target of 1.5 million people," he said in a written statement quoted on Tuesday, October 4.

According to Airlangga, through this normal scheme in 2023, the government will make adjustments to the amount of assistance for participants worth Rp. 4.2 million per individual. Meanwhile, the details are training costs of Rp. 3.5 million, post-training incentives of Rp. 600,000 which will be given once, and incentives of Rp. 100,000 for two survey fillings.

For information, the value of the 2022 Pre-Employment Card is Rp. 3.55 million, consisting of training costs of Rp. 1 million, incentives after the first training of Rp. 600,000 per month for 4 months (Rp. 2.4 million) and incentives for filling out a survey of Rp. 50,000 per survey for 3 surveys (Rp. 150,000).

The 2022 Pre-Employment Card Program will be implemented online, offline, or hybrid. In addition, the normal scheme also allows recipients of social assistance from other ministries/agencies to benefit from the Pre-Employment Card Program," he continued.

Airlangga also said that this program would focus more on assistance in increasing the skills and productivity of the workforce, such as direct training costs for participants and post-training incentives with various skills, reskilling, and upskilling training.

"The Pre-Employment Card Program will focus more on improving the competence of the workforce as the initial concept of this program was launched before the era of the COVID-19 pandemic," he stressed.

To note, in 2022 it is recorded that the Pre-Employment Card Program has provided benefits for 3.46 million recipients from 514 regencies/cities in Indonesia.

The total number of recipients since the beginning of the program until now has reached 14.9 million recipients. Based on the number of participants in 2022, 53.6 percent of them came from 212 districts/cities targeting the reduction of extreme poverty and including prospective Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI).