Prabowo Orders Review of Educator Staffing Requirements Data

State Secretary Minister Prasetyo Hadi stated that President Prabowo Subianto has requested a comprehensive redesign of educator staffing requirements, including the number, composition, distribution, and subject-matter focus of education personnel.

“The President has requested a redesign of how many educators are needed, their composition, distribution, and the subjects produced,” Prasetyo said following a meeting with several ministers at the Ministry of Defence office on Tuesday, 17 March 2026.

The meeting was attended by Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) Rini Widyantini, Minister of Basic and Secondary Education Abdul Mu’ti, Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology (Mendiktisaintek) Brian Yuliarto, Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono, Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian, and Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin.

The meeting also included Deputy Minister of Cooperatives Farida Farichah, Head of the State Personnel Board (BKN) Zudan Arif Fakrulloh, and Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti.

The meeting lasted three hours. According to Prasetyo, determining educator staffing requirements is the responsibility of the Ministers of Basic and Secondary Education and Defence. Meanwhile, the Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology is tasked with identifying potential candidate pools.

Beyond education staffing, Prabowo instructed the Health Minister to compile data on healthcare workforce needs, particularly in disadvantaged, frontier, and outermost regions (3T).

During the meeting, Prasetyo reported that the Health Minister disclosed that 4,000 of 10,000 health centres require additional healthcare personnel, particularly dentists.

Additionally, Prasetyo noted that the State Personnel Board has continued to develop a national civil service staffing framework over the past year.