The preemployment card committee has suspended the sale naturally packages offered by partnered learning platforms since Tuesday after discovering lapses in accountability.
The program’s partners, Skill Academy by Ruangguru, MauBelajarApa, Pintaria, Sekolahmu and Pijar Mahir, provide courses packaged as bundles for preemployment card holders.
For example, Skill Academy by Ruangguru provided a package for ojol ( app-based bike taxi) motorists including six courses, consisting of tension management and English conversation, for Rp 1 million (US$7049), compared to Rp 3.97 million if each course was purchased individually.
Nevertheless, the program committee found that the bundles offered no system to make sure that buyers in fact completed the courses in the bundle prior to they received cash incentives.
The preemployment card program is a mix of money help and training aids offered by the government. Each individual is eligible for Rp 600,000 a month for four months after finishing at least one class. Card holders also get Rp 1 million to spend for training courses.
” There are no reports on participants’ evaluations of instructors, the training platforms or the classes in the package itself,” the committee wrote in a circular on Tuesday, a copy of which was obtained by The Jakarta Post
The committee added that the issue had actually prevented the program management from examining the classes.
Preemployment card program representative Panji Winanteya Ruky confirmed the suspension of the course bundles. He asserted that the suspended plans made up only a small part of the training programs offered.
” The termination has no effect on the general program, as it continues to run in line with the Job Creation Committee,” Panji told the Post on Thursday.
He added that participants who were currently taking the bundled courses would still receive the money incentives and partnered business providing the packages would be paid as usual.
” The termination of the bundled plans is an action in executing great program governance so that participants can really take advantage of the program, without limiting the freedom to select from thousands of other types of training,” stated Panji.
The Corruption Removal Commission (KPK) recently discovered some doubtful truths about the program, consisting of the presence of comparable programs used totally free on other platforms. The antigraft body recommended that the government overhaul the program to attend to such irregularities.
Committee chairman Rudy Salahuddin said he would revamp the program to address its issues.
