Minister Of Industry Agus Gumiwang: 19 Polytechnics Ready To Be A Pre-Employment Card Program Training Center

Minister of Industry Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

Minister of Industry Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita said as many as 19 polytechnics belonging to the Ministry of Industry are ready to become partners in the Pre-Employment Card program.

This is to support the Pre-Employment Card program for normal schemes that will be held offline this year.

"We have Ministry of Industry centers, we have vocational centers, education centers, that's a lot, and we have 19 polytechnics in Indonesia," Agus said in an online press conference in Jakarta, Thursday, January 5.

Business actors who wish to provide training for their workers can also cooperate with the Pre-Employment Card Program, so that training locations can be provided by program provider companies.

"So, basically the education infrastructure in the Ministry of Industry is ready to support the Pre-Employment Card program," said Agus.

The Pre-Employment Card Program is also expected to improve the expertise of workers, not only to fulfill job vacancies in the country, but also abroad.

"Later, participants can become a workforce to fill the labor market abroad, because the demand is currently very high. So, we have to prepare Indonesian human resources so that they have criteria that are needed by the world labor market," he added.

As is known, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said that the Pre-Employment Card Program will resume this year.

The Pre-Employment Card Program scheme this year is a normal scheme or no longer uses a semi-assisted scheme (bansos) like in previous years.

With the change in the scheme, the government has budgeted Rp2.67 trillion for 595,000 participants, and will increase it by Rp1.7 trillion because the targeted participants have increased to one million.

In 2022, the realization of the Pre-Employment Card budget will reach IDR 17.84 trillion for 4,984,790 participants or 99.12 percent of the budget target of IDR 18 trillion.