This Is An Excuse For Graduates From Google Rises To Many Technology Industrys In Indonesia

Bangkit Program in Indonesia (Photo: Google)

JAKARTA - The Bangkit Program from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Kemendikbud Ristek) together with the search giant Google has officially opened on Monday, February 20, with 5,000 selected students.

The Bangkit program has opened up many opportunities for Indonesian students who want to have a career in the IT world.

Google noted that 90 percent of Bangkit's graduates said the program had opened the door to achieving their first career.

According to BCA Human Capital Vice President of IT Athika Cornelia in the Joint Industry' session at the opening ceremony of Bangkit 2023, students who graduated from Bangkit showed competence that allowed them to contribute to various projects to help the company.

BCA is one of the banks that always adapts to technological developments. We are trying to go digital to provide solutions to customers who want easy transactions anytime and anywhere," explained Athika in a statement on Google Indonesia's official website.

We see how Bangkit graduates can quickly catch up because they have been provided for during the Bangkit program. As a result, Bangkit graduates seem ready to work and are able to help develop from the IT side to answer consumer needs," he continued.

The Bangkit program is designed with a solid curriculum that combines self-learning and direct learning for three main learning channels, namely Machine Learning, Mobile Development, and Cloud Computing.

Not only through 900 hours of IT science lessons, the participants also received soft skills and English training, which was later expected to give birth to new talents that accelerated digital transformation that brought Indonesia to accelerate its future.

Currently candidates who have experience in big data are needed. All Bangkit graduates in us (inter) have very good knowledge of this. They become responsive to assignments and with trained skills, they can provide good support for the company," said Grass Oksiana, Human Capital at Astra Financial.

This year, Google hopes to have a greater impact on opening up opportunities for the number of participants in the Bangkit program for 9,000 students in Indonesia.

Also, embracing more female participants, vocational students, people with disabilities, participants from non-IT, and also students from small and medium-sized cities to achieve the dream of becoming reliable professionals in the IT field.