227,000 recipients of pre-employment cards have their membership revoked, why?

Reporter: Lidya Yuniartha | Editor: Khomarul Hidayat

KONTAN.CO.ID – JAKARTA. To date, the government has revoked 227,818 membership statuses for recipients of pre-employment cards. The revoked membership status comes from the recipients of the pre-employment card from lot 1 to lot 5.

If in lots 1 to 4 about 180,000 memberships were withdrawn, in lot 5 the government again withdrawn the membership of 47,818 recipients of the total number of recipients of previous work cards for lot 5 of 800,000 people.

“Membership revocation occurs according to the 30-day term cycle after a person approves the selection,” said Louisa Tuhatu, chief communications officer for executive management (PMO) of the pre-employment card program. , to Kontan.co.id, on Monday (9/28).

Furthermore, Louisa also said that her party was still investigating the reasons why some V wave pre-employment card recipients did not take the first training. However, previously in batches 1-4 there were 3 main reasons why participants did not take the first training, namely that participants had already got a job, had forgotten their password and did not know what to do.

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Louisa also asked beneficiaries of the pre-employment card program to immediately purchase their first training so that their membership is not revoked. She recalled that the deadline for the purchase of the first training for the beneficiaries of the pre-employment card of lot 6 will end next week.

“For recipients of the pre-employment card from lot 6, the expiration date is October 2 at 11:59 pm WIB,” Louisa continued.

The revocation of membership is also regulated in the Regulation of the Coordinating Minister of Economic Affairs Number 11 of 2020. Article 20, paragraph 1, establishes that the beneficiaries of the pre-employment card are free to choose the training that has been approved by the PMO, where the selection of training for the first time is made no later than 30 days after the participants are designated as recipients of pre-employment cards.

In the event that the recipient of the pre-employment card does not make a training selection within 30 days, the recipient of the pre-employment card will be revoked.

Also, if the pre-employment card membership is revoked, the training assistance remaining on the pre-employment card is returned to the pre-employment card fund account, the incentive assistance remaining on the pre-employment card is returned to the account of the pre-employment card fund. And pre-employment card beneficiaries cannot re-participate in the pre-employment card program.

According to PMO data for pre-employment cards, there are already 3.4 million recipients of pre-employment cards from Lot I to Lot VIII who have purchased training. In addition, there are 2.4 million beneficiaries who have completed at least 1 training. Meanwhile, the total number of pre-employment card recipients up to batch 8 was 4.68 million people.

“Wave 9 just ended last week, so we can’t see the pattern yet,” Louisa continued.