Menaker emphasizes the role of BPVP Banda Aceh to push superior workforce

Jakarta – Minister of Manpower Yassierli emphasized the role of the Banda Aceh Vocational and Productivity Training Center (BPVP) in the preparation of superior and competitive workforce. To realize this, he emphasizes the importance of growing the innovation ecosystem in the hall. “Our challenge is to grow the innovation ecosystem. Therefore, I hope that creative innovations will emerge from our hall and work with various stakeholders, including the campus,” Yassierli said in a written statement on Friday (9/26/2025). It was transferred during a working visit to the Banda Aceh BPVP, Thursday (9/25). Browse to continue with the content during the visit, Yassierli also did a soft introduction of talent and innovation hub at BPVP Banda Aceh. He hopes that the presence of this innovation center can become a forum for the younger generation to develop skills, creativity and create new ideas that support the development of employment in Aceh. Furthermore, Yassierli opened a Batch III project -based learning (PBL) training and a collaboration training with the Ministry of Social Affairs for Disabilities. On the same occasion, the signing of a memorandum of understanding between BPVP Banda Aceh and various stakeholders as an attempt to expand the training and workplacement network. He also appreciated the role of instructors in BPVP who he said had an important position such as teachers or lecturers in the world of formal education. Yassierli assessed that the instructors not only provide training but also lead and direct and direct the participants. “The instructor is similar to teachers, lecturers, extraordinary heroes in producing people who have competence. We pray that they will bless their lives,” he explained. Yassierli said that practical abilities and technical skills in the present era are a benchmark that is determined and no less important than academic degrees. Competence certificates are therefore proof that strengthens the person’s ability and increases competitiveness in the labor market. “Competency certificate becomes something important except a diploma. So, in the future, the basis is a diploma plus a certificate of competence,” he concluded. (Ega/Ega)