Jakarta – Acting Guv of Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono hoped character education can be instilled in students, as they will end up being future leaders.
” The current problem is that students are smart and skilled, however their character is doing not have. This must be one of our focuses in the education (field),” Hartono stated when offering a speech at the Astra Education Festival 2023 at the Taman Mini Indonesia Indah Park, here on Sunday.
He said the Jakarta provincial federal government and the main government have synergized to welcome the anticipated nation’s golden age in 2045.
In supporting that, the government supplies centers or help for trainees, such as the Smart Indonesia Card (KIP) that can be obtained by trainees from kindergarten to college levels.
” Students who aged 18 today will lead Indonesia in 2045,” he said at the occasion attended by one thousand students.
According to him, education is the way to create a proficient and expert labor force.
On the same event, the Director General of Vocational Education at the Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Ministry, Kiki Yuliati, stressed the importance of providing project-based knowing, particularly for occupation students.
She said trainees ought to not just be provided the learning tools but likewise the significance or understanding of learning.
” In the future, students ought to not just be provided tools or centers according to their respective majors however also given context,” Yuliati discussed.
Indonesia will deal with a market bonus, hence, it is very important to handle education well, she said.
” If we fail to handle it, it will become a market catastrophe,” she said.
According to her, vocational students require to “learn how to find out” and “find out how to think”. “These dimensions require to be honed,” she added.
In addition, she considered partnerships in between education and the industry to be crucial.
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