Kemendukbangga Involves Universities in Developing Population Development Roadmap
The Ministry of Population and Family Development (Kemendukbangga)/BKKBN, together with the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology (Kemdiktisaintek), launched the Consortium of Higher Education Institutions Concerned with Population (PTPK) in Badung Regency, Bali, on Thursday.
“We invite higher education institutions to jointly create an action plan that accelerates the implementation of population development achievements,” said the Secretary of Kemendukbangga/BKKBN, Budi Setiyono, at the National Population Symposium for 2026.
At the launch, 14 universities were involved as consortium managers, such as the Rector of Universitas Negeri Padang as chair, the Rector of Universitas Udayana as vice-chair, and the Rector of Universitas Sumatera Utara as secretary.
The higher education institutions in the PTPK Consortium are targeted to serve as companions in regions for the creation and implementation of the Population Development Roadmap (PJPK) document.
In the PJPK, he said, Kemendukbangga has prepared a broad framework towards Indonesia Maju 2045 with 30 indicators, including those related to improving population quality, maintaining quantity, and population distribution.
The education sector plays an important role in ensuring all indicators are implemented in the field, he continued, so beyond the 200 members and managers of the consortium who have already joined, the government is still awaiting the involvement of other state and private higher education institutions.
Furthermore, Kemendukbangga also invites the PTPK Consortium to integrate career development centres worked on together with the Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker) to ensure that the number and majors of higher education graduates or supply match the demands from the job market.
“So that what we produce later with higher education is relevant to industry needs and can also support achieving Indonesia Maju 2045, because currently the architecture of Indonesian higher education has too much over-supply in some study programmes,” he stated.
Kemdiktisaintek, he added, sees that some study programmes whose graduates are needed by industry are actually short of human resources.
“This mismatch is something we are currently studying, but it will also require assistance from PTPK, because if the demographic bonus is being promoted everywhere right now, but if the higher education that is expected to lead us to become an advanced country is not adjusted to future economic growth needs, it will certainly not match,” said Badri Munir.