Ministry of Religious Affairs Hopes KBC Training Will Enhance Quality of Empathetic and Solution-Oriented Public Services

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Religious Affairs is conducting online training on the Love-Based Curriculum (KBC) through the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Pintar platform, which is expected to impact the enhancement of empathetic and solution-oriented public services. “We hope that civil servants increasingly understand the substance of KBC, which will impact public services in the Ministry of Religious Affairs becoming more empathetic and solution-oriented,” said the Head of the Human Resources Training and Development Centre of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Mastuki, in Jakarta on Monday. In the first phase of the KBC training, 305,393 participants from the ministry’s educational personnel took part. The training was opened by Minister of Religious Affairs Nasaruddin Umar on 22 April 2026. Mastuki assured that the KBC training will continue to be held online, independently, and openly so that it can be accessed by the wider public throughout Indonesia. The training is also designed to be increasingly adaptive, interactive, and based on real field needs. This training becomes an effective solution in massively and measurably improving the competence of civil servants. The online KBC training through MOOC Pintar, he said, will remain open in subsequent periods to provide broader access. “It is hoped that all Ministry of Religious Affairs civil servants and other stakeholders, such as religious instructors, administrative sections, RA teachers, PAI teachers in schools, taklim councils, and others, still have great potential and need to gain an understanding of KBC,” he said. Previously, Minister of Religious Affairs Nasaruddin Umar stated that KBC emerges as an effort to address various educational challenges, including spiritual dryness, declining moral quality, bullying, violence, and hatred. “We do not want to produce students who are spiritually dry, only sharp in thought. What we hope for is that their minds are sharp but their hearts are also fertile,” said the Minister. The Ministry of Religious Affairs presents KBC as a new paradigm that emphasises education that is not only intellectually intelligent but also mature emotionally and spiritually. He encourages teachers, instructors, and Ministry of Religious Affairs civil servants to become the main agents in spreading values of love, empathy, and social care, both in school environments and in the wider community.