DIGIVESTASI - Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said the government will spend Rp4.8 trillion on training participants for the 2024 Pre-Employment Card Program. "(The training budget) is Rp4.8 trillion," said Airlangga when briefing the implementation team to the Job Creation Committee and partners. The Pre-Employment Card Program in Jakarta on Tuesday (23 January 2024). Airlangga targets to enroll up to 1.2 million people in the Pre-Employment Card training program by 2024.  

He said that 17.5 million people have joined the Pre-Employment Card program since its launch in April 2020. "This year we want to train 1.2 million people. "And of course there is still a lot of homework to be done. The target by the end of 2024 is estimated to be around 19 million people (pre-employment program participants)," he said.

Airlangga also said that in the last three years, the Pre-Employment Card has provided access to comprehensive training in 514 districts / cities, of which 51 percent are women and 48 percent are in 212 very poor districts / cities. from disadvantaged areas. / urban, 3 percent from the poor and people with disabilities.

Meanwhile, employment continued to increase last year, as reflected in the number of new workers entering the job market or 4 million people. Currently, the number of employees is 147 million people. However, the proportion of the population that is not working is still around 5.32 percent. Therefore, there is a need for vocational training programs that can be accessed both offline and online, he said. Therefore, the registration will also be done online and there will be offline and online training," he said. 

Previously, the 2024 pre-employment batch started on Wednesday (March 1, 2024). The pre-employment account registration process can be done through the website www.prakerja.go.id.  Lydia Kusnadi, Head of Communication at the PMO, said that the pre-employment wave will continue to occur along with the regular program, meaning that the amount of scholarship received by participants is Rp 4.2 million per person. achieve. The amount is divided into a training fee of Rp 3.5 million, a one-time financial incentive after training of Rp 600,000, and a survey incentive of Rp 100,000 for completing two surveys.

"Even though Wave 63 has not yet started, we recommend that you start creating a pre-employment account now, so that later when Wave 63 starts, participants can complete their pre-employment account. Join Wave button on your account dashboard," Lydia said in a written statement. Friday (2024/05/01). 

Lydia said that opening an account at Prakerja.go.id is open to the public regardless of professional background, even students. This, she said, is because before working, there are other programs such as Indonesia Skills Week (ISW) which can be followed by the wider community, both those who have attended formal education and civil servants, civil servants and others. or the Talenta.ai program in collaboration with Microsoft. He said that the main requirement for ISW and Talenta.ai is to have a pre-employment account. Therefore, creating a pre-employment account is important, he said.