Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani said Indonesia could become a developed country like South Korea (Carousel). However, there are conditions that must be met to achieve this.
According to him, the main requirement is to have qualified Human Resources (HR). This is what the government is currently focusing on improving.
“So, through watching it, you see that South Korea is progressing, the buildings are tall, the infrastructure is good. Now, Indonesia can and has great potential to continue pursuing that progress. But one of the conditions is human productivity,” he said at the Coordinating Ministry for Home Affairs Meeting, Thursday (16 /6).
The state treasurer said that in order to achieve competitive and great human resources, the government has allocated a very large budget through education, health and social security.
The annual education budget is set at 20 percent of the total APBN expenditure. This year, education is recorded at Rp. 621.3 trillion.
Then, the health budget is set at 5 percent of the total state budget expenditure. However, this year the health budget allocation rose 9.4 percent to Rp255.3 trillion due to COVID-19.
Even in the most difficult conditions, such as during the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government did not reduce the budget in the three sectors in the slightest. Instead, they are added, such as for health and social security.
“These are three areas that greatly affect the quality of our human resources,” he said.
Therefore, he hopes that regional heads can participate in supporting the central government in policies to improve the quality of human resources.
This is because the region is the one who distributes this budget to the community, such as teacher salaries, student assistance and honorariums in the regions.
“This needs attention because they are the key to whether our society, our children will become children who can learn, increase their productivity, are healthy, don’t get sick and he will be a generation that continues to advance to be able to pursue the progress we want. achieve. So this is important,” he concluded.
(idy / agt)
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