JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The government will move up the distribution of the much-vaunted pre-employment cards to March in a bid to mitigate the adverse effects of the coronavirus outbreak on the country’s economy, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has said.
“Rp10 trillion [US$719.57 million] has been allocated for 2 million people to receive the pre-employment cards and to begin vocational training, ” said Sri Mulyani in Jakarta on Wednesday .
Through the pre-employment card programme, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo hopes to reduce the unemployment rate and teach new skills to Indonesia’s workforce to keep up with the ever-changing digital economy and combat job losses as a result of automation. “The government is ready to conduct the programme in order to boost economic growth in the first quarter, which will be [adversely] affected by the coronavirus, ” she said.
Furthermore, the government will also make Rp3.3 trillion available for regional governments to compensate them for losses due to the government’s decision to waive restaurant and hotel taxes for the next six months.
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