As many as 400 participants have completed the Vocational School Graduate Academy (VSGA) program running from 1-31 July at Vocational School UGM. It is part of the Digital Talent Scholarship program initiated by the Ministry of Communications and Informatics to prepare human resources in technology.
“Digital Talent Scholarship is organized as one of programs of excellence to build human resources in digital technology,” said Head of Human Resource Development in the Ministry, Zulkarnain, in the closing ceremony of VSGA on Wednesday (31/7) at the School’s Library.
The Digital Talent Scholarship has four categories of training and certification: Fresh Graduate Academy, Vocational School Graduate Academy, Coding Teacher Academy, and Online Academy. It is a collaboration with 30 universities and 23 polytechniques across Indonesia.
The VSGA program running at UGM focuses on competence improvement of vocational school graduates who have yet to seek jobs. There are 4 training areas offered here: Junior Graphic Designer, Junior Web Developer, Junior Mobile Programmer, and Intermediate Animator. The 72-hour program consists of offline training, add ons, competence testing, and certification which is based on the SKKNI by the LSP.
“All the participants have done competence testing and 98 percent of them proved to be competent. We hope the program would benefit the human resource quality in Indonesia,” said Zulkarnain. He added that the ministry was trying to create a balanced ecosystem in maximizing the triple-helix (government, private sector, and educational institutions) roles to be facilitator and accelerator of the digital economy.
Dean of the School, Wikan Sakarinto, S.T., M.Sc., Ph.D., said the material for the training had been designed in line with digital technology development and industrial needs. The participants are expected to be an individual who is able to compete in the digital era and adjust to the work market. Their competence is expected to improve so it can reduce unemployment rate and meet the skilled human resource needs in technology.
“The material that we designed is current. The participants need to show that they pass competence testing. This should be able to reduce the unemployment rate,” he concluded.
Source: https://ugm.ac.id/id/berita/18184-sekolah-vokasi-ugm-latih-400-talenta-digital-lulusan-smk
