The Ministry of Population and Family Development\n(Kemendukbangga)\/BKKBN, together with the Ministry of Higher Education,\nScience, and Technology (Kemdiktisaintek), launched the Consortium of\nHigher Education Institutions Concerned with Population (PTPK) in Badung\nRegency, Bali, on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe invite higher education institutions to jointly create an action\nplan that accelerates the implementation of population development\nachievements,\u201d said the Secretary of Kemendukbangga\/BKKBN, Budi\nSetiyono, at the National Population Symposium for 2026.<\/p>\n
At the launch, 14 universities were involved as consortium managers,\nsuch as the Rector of Universitas Negeri Padang as chair, the Rector of\nUniversitas Udayana as vice-chair, and the Rector of Universitas\nSumatera Utara as secretary.<\/p>\n
The higher education institutions in the PTPK Consortium are targeted\nto serve as companions in regions for the creation and implementation of\nthe Population Development Roadmap (PJPK) document.<\/p>\n
In the PJPK, he said, Kemendukbangga has prepared a broad framework\ntowards Indonesia Maju 2045 with 30 indicators, including those related\nto improving population quality, maintaining quantity, and population\ndistribution.<\/p>\n
The education sector plays an important role in ensuring all\nindicators are implemented in the field, he continued, so beyond the 200\nmembers and managers of the consortium who have already joined, the\ngovernment is still awaiting the involvement of other state and private\nhigher education institutions.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, Kemendukbangga also invites the PTPK Consortium to\nintegrate career development centres worked on together with the\nMinistry of Manpower (Kemnaker) to ensure that the number and majors of\nhigher education graduates or supply match the demands from the job\nmarket.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that what we produce later with higher education is relevant to\nindustry needs and can also support achieving Indonesia Maju 2045,\nbecause currently the architecture of Indonesian higher education has\ntoo much over-supply in some study programmes,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
Kemdiktisaintek, he added, sees that some study programmes whose\ngraduates are needed by industry are actually short of human\nresources.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis mismatch is something we are currently studying, but it will\nalso require assistance from PTPK, because if the demographic bonus is\nbeing promoted everywhere right now, but if the higher education that is\nexpected to lead us to become an advanced country is not adjusted to\nfuture economic growth needs, it will certainly not match,\u201d said Badri\nMunir.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/kemendukbangga-involves-universities-in-developing-population-development-roadmap-1777049497", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }