Minister Mu'ti: Collegial Work Culture is Foundation for UPTs to Strengthen Services

A culture of mutual learning will strengthen the quality of education services whilst building a spirit of working as one team.

Yogyakarta (ANTARA) — Minister of Primary and Secondary Education (Mendikdasmen) Abdul Mu’ti has affirmed that a collegial work culture within the ministry forms an important foundation so that every technical implementation unit (UPT) can strengthen synergy and deliver increasingly effective services to the public.

He made the remarks while addressing staff of the ministry’s UPTs across the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY), an event held alongside the opening of the Upskilling and Reskilling programme for vocational teachers in the arts and culture field, under the blended internship model, second wave, at the Yogyakarta Centre for Vocational Education Quality Assurance (BBPPMPV).

“We want to build a culture within the ministry that is friendly and courteous, with collegial work and performance. So we hope the centres will not work on their own, but work in synergy and strengthen one another,” the minister said in a statement on Thursday.

According to him, all education personnel within the UPTs need to build collaborative spaces to share experiences, knowledge and skills. A culture of mutual learning will strengthen the quality of education services whilst building a spirit of working as one team.

The minister also said the ministry is restructuring the working system of the UPTs to make them more integrated, in the hope that barriers between work units will be dismantled so that every ministry policy becomes a shared responsibility to deliver successfully.

“We want those barriers to be broken down through increasingly integrated performance by strengthening collegiality,” he said.

“We ask everyone to become the ministry’s public relations arm. Whatever the policy, please also share information about the ministry’s policies. Everyone can become marketers for the ministry,” he said.

On that occasion, the minister also introduced the SIMI principle—Socialisation, Information, Mitigation and Intervention—as an approach to strengthening the ministry’s public communication.

Through this approach, the minister continued, every UPT is expected to be able to socialise policies, communicate the ministry’s achievements to the public, mitigate potential issues, and correct misinformation.