Day: July 23, 2022

Commemoration of National Children’s Day (HAN) serves as a reminder of the importance of assisting children’s growth, so that they can become a quality generation, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy remarked.

“HAN reminds us once again on how far we have helped the growth of Indonesian children,” he told ANTARA here on Saturday.

Parents, education workers, the surrounding environment, as well as related parties should play an active role with the government to assist the growth of Indonesian children as the country’s successors.

“Those now in their childhood phase will become human resources when Indonesia enters its golden age in 2045,” he noted.

To this end, National Children’s Day, commemorated every July 23, offers the right momentum to collectively pay attention to and care for Indonesian children.

“This is because it may be possible that in our daily life, we neglect and forget (about children) due to other matters,” Effendy remarked.

He also invited all parties to collectively optimize the fulfilment of Indonesian children’s rights.

All human development phases, starting from the fetus to infancy and childhood to the adult phase, are very important, he noted.

“The growth condition of the previous phase will determine the condition in the next phase,” he remarked.

For instance, a person’s condition during the fetal and infancy phase will determine his or her condition when he or she enters the childhood phase, he explained.

A person’s condition in the childhood phase will determine his or her condition when he or she becomes a teen and so on, he remarked.

To this end, if the growth process in every phase is not optimized, then this will have a negative impact on the next phase.

Hence, Effendy’s ministry invites every party to make the most of the momentum of National Children’s Day through the strengthening of campaigns, dissemination, and education on the importance of optimally assisting the growth process.

Source: Antara News

One of the challenges to creating data scientists in Indonesia is low awareness among the younger generation on the importance of data science, the Communication and Informatics Ministry has said.

Hence, the ministry has started to educate youngsters to raise awareness on the importance of data science, ministry official Said Mirza Pahlevi informed during a panel discussion in South Tangerang on Saturday.

Through this effort, the younger generation will know that data science can bring major benefits in almost every field, he added.

More activities to introduce the importance of digital technology, data utilization, and their potential in the future to the younger generation are necessary.

This is because they will be the nation’s successors who will need to meet the country’s demand for digital talents, including by becoming data scientists.

As a data scientist working in the government, Pahlevi said that Indonesians’ enthusiasm is quite high when it comes to understanding data science.

This is evident from the fact that various data science-related trainings held by the ministry have always seen good participation. However, the participants still comprise professional workers and university students.

As of June 2022, the ministry has managed to draw 25 thousand participants to data science-related training programs.

To increase the number of people interested in data science in the country, the ministry has started to reach out to the alpha generation, which is the most adept at technology and digitalization.

Through special data science-related training, starting from students at the primary school level, the ministry is seeking to provide learning and understanding activities that are not only based on theory, but also practice.

This is expected to get more talents interested in becoming data scientists.

The ministry has collaborated with private parties to initiate the Data Science for Kids program that is targeting to help alpha digital talents studying in grades 4 through 6 to learn about and understand data science.

Source: Antara News

The younger generation has high potential to create sustainable and inclusive jobs, the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto stated during the closing of the Y20 Summit at the Indonesia G20 Presidency on Friday.

Members of the younger generation are expected to optimize their important role in determining the nation’s future through active participation in political and decision-making processes, Hartarto said in a statement on Saturday.

G20 is an international forum comprising 19 countries that work together to handle major issues. Indonesia is holding the presidency of the grouping this year.

According to its official website, Y20 is a forum for future young leaders from G20 member countries for discussing, debating, and exchanging ideas regarding the agenda of the G20 Presidency.

As the G20 President, he noted, Indonesia strives to facilitate in providing opportunities for members of the younger generation to become important actors within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2030.

The effort is accommodated by the government within the Y20 forum that raises four main areas of focus: youth manpower, digital transformation, sustainable and livable planet, as well as diversity and inclusion.

“I welcome the Y20 communique with four sectors that became the focus of the Indonesia Y20 committee as issues that significantly affect youngsters across the world,” he remarked.

Indonesia Y20 became a milestone in facilitating representation of various underrepresented communities, people with disabilities, and local communities as official observers in Indonesia Y20.

The diversity in representation aims to accommodate various voices and interests of minority and marginal groups as well as those, who historically have their own hurdles.

Other forms of support provided by the government to prepare the younger generation to dive into Industry 4.0 involve allocating Rp373 trillion worth of business financing aid through smallholder business credit (KUR).

The government also facilitates the younger generation in accessing KUR.

In addition, the government has offered the Pre-Employment Card Program that provides access and financing for the younger generation to conduct upskilling and reskilling.

This is expected to bolster their competitiveness in the working world.

To this day, the Pre-Employment Card Program had reached 12.8 million recipients that chiefly constitute members of the younger generation.

Source: Antara News

The Timor Leste immigration authorities have deported nine Indonesian nationals for working illegally in the country, the Atambua Immigration Office in Belu District, East Nusa Tenggara, has informed.

“The nine people worked in Timor Leste without work visas so they were deported to Indonesia,” chief of the Atambua Immigration Office, K.A. Halim, said on Saturday.

Six of the nine Indonesian nationals came from Medan (North Sumatra), and one each from Padang (West Sumatra), Cikarang (West Java), and Bandar Lampung (Lampung).

The Timor Leste immigration authorities have prohibited the nine workers from entering the country again for about two years, he informed.

He said the immigration office has also deported two Indonesian nationals from Malaka district, East Nusa Tenggara, for illegal entry.

The Indonesian nationals were deported via the Mota’ain cross-border checkpoint in Belu district on Friday (July 22, 2022).

Before they were allowed to return to their hometowns in Indonesia, the Atambua Immigration Office interviewed them intensively to determine the reasons why they violated the immigration rules.

Halim advised them that if they want to work overseas sometime in the future they must apply for work visas.

“We told (them) that working illegally overseas will only harm them because the state does not guarantee them. On the other hand, they can also embarrass the nation,” he added.

He said his office is still studying the case to check whether an irresponsible person sent them to work illegally in the neighboring country.

“They hold Indonesian passports which were not issued by the Atambua Immigration Office. We will study the case to see whether an irresponsible person or mafia was involved in the dispatch of the illegal Indonesian migrant workers,” he added.

Source: Antara News

Bali Governor I Wayan Koster laid the first stone for the construction of a 115-meter telecommunication tower called Turyapada Tower KBS 6.0 Kerthi Bali in Buleleng district on Saturday.

“The Turyapada Tower KBS 6.0 Kerthi Bali will have a height of 115 meters, (and will be) built at an altitude of 1,521 meters from sea level, bringing the total height of the tower to 1,636 meters,” Koster informed in Amerta Sari Customary Village, Sukasada sub-district, Buleleng.

The top part of Turyapada Tower will serve as a transmitter for digital TV broadcasts, cellular telecommunications, Internet, and local radio communications.

The tower’s body will contain a planetarium, skywalk, rotating restaurant, and glass bridge, while the tower’s pedestal will support conventional tourism by housing an educational laboratory and a museum of communications, which will display technology from each era of civilization.

Koster said that the tower, which is being built with a budget of Rp418 billion, will not be inferior to world-famous towers such as Eiffel Tower, Tokyo Tower, Toronto Tower (CN Tower), Macau Tower, and Fernsehturm Tower.

“Turyapada Tower is (located) in the hills (surrounded by) villages, different to other towers, which are in the city center,” Koster said.

The tower is targeted to be able to stand for at least 500 years and withstand winds and earthquakes, he informed.

Turyapada Tower was initiated by Governor Koster as a political promise to the people of Buleleng, who often face limited television broadcast coverage.

Koster said he, therefore, decided to build the tower in the integrated Bali Smarts Communication Technology Park.

Turyapada Tower will support digital TV broadcasts in 80 percent of the Buleleng, Jembrana, and Karangasem areas.

The tower is being constructed by PT Hutama Karya with PT Yodya Karya, and is targeted to reach its final stage in August 2023.

Source: Antara News