Finance Ministry holds 11th Teaching programme, reaching 372 schools

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Finance Ministry held its 11th Kemenkeu Mengajar programme, involving 7,878 volunteers at 372 schools across 153 cities and regencies in 37 provinces in Indonesia, as well as eight cities overseas: Tokyo, Melbourne, Perth, New York, Boston, Cardiff, Birmingham and Singapore.

“I hope all Finance Ministry staff taking part in this activity do so with enthusiasm and pride, and recognise that we safeguard the state’s finances by communicating about them credibly to the public,” Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara said in a press statement in Jakarta on Monday.

Kemenkeu Mengajar is a one-day volunteering programme involving Finance Ministry staff, employees of Special Mission Vehicles (SMVs), and students from the State Finance Polytechnic STAN (PKN STAN).

The programme serves various levels of education, from primary and junior secondary schools to senior secondary schools, special-needs schools, Sekolah Rakyat and Indonesian Schools Overseas (SILN).

Suahasil taught at Integrated Sekolah Rakyat 4 in Jakarta.

During the session, he introduced students to the role of money, sources of state revenue and the management of the State Budget (APBN).

Students were also invited to learn how the APBN is managed and used to support the public’s needs.

“The APBN must be able to stimulate economic growth in society. Secondly, the APBN must be able to protect the public,” the minister said.

In addition to the Finance Minister, three deputy finance ministers also took part as teachers at different schools.

Deputy Finance Minister Juda Agung taught at Integrated Sekolah Rakyat 1 in Semarang; Deputy Finance Minister Nurkholisoh Ibnu Aman attended Taruna Nusantara Senior High School’s Magelang campus; and Deputy Finance Minister Luky Alfirman taught at Senior High School 1 Sungai Puar, Bukittinggi.

The ministry said participating schools were not charged, and the programme did not use APBN funds. It relied on volunteers’ contributions of time, effort and resources.