Jakarta – A total of 100 pilot community schools have been working in phases since July 14, 2025. Now the number has risen to 165 points. Deputy Social Minister Agus Jabo said it was targeted in the future that the number would significantly grow significantly according to the leadership of President Prabowo Subianto. “So far, we are still opening. Who the Regent, Mayor, the Governor who wants to imagine the establishment of the People’s Schools, is still opening,” Agus Jabo said in his statement Tuesday (9/23/2025). Browse to continue the content he said at a work meeting with the Committee III of the Indonesian Regional Representative Council (DPD) in the Senayan parliamentary complex. Agus Jabo added like a tit for Tat opened by the Ministry of Social Affairs was enthusiastically welcomed by the regional heads. Not just a proposal, they also prepared land for the construction of permanent people’s schools. But he said that the Ministry of Social Affairs was not authorized to determine the number of people’s schools that would work later. It all depends on the direction of the president who set the target of 500 people’s schools. “The orders of the president every local government must have at least one Volkskool,” he explained. Agus Jabo also said that later every permanent People’s School would be able to accommodate as many as 1,000 students. From Elementary, Junior High School, to High School. The program initiated by President Prabowo aims to alleviate the poverty chain. “And the president prioritizes and asks that our elementary school children prioritize. Because he wants to decide from the transfer of poverty from an early age,” he said. In addition, Agus Jabo said that the president also wanted children who received education in people’s schools were not only academically smart but also had religious, national and social characters. “And they must also have skills, so that if they study at people’s schools, especially those who are high school, do not want to continue their studies and want to work to help their parents, they have already skills. So there is career training at high school level. Smart, character, skill,” said Agus Jabo. In response, member III member AJI Mirni Mawarni said he strongly supports the People’s School program. The DPD member of the East Kalimantan election district also hopes to be involved in organizing people’s schools. (AKD/AKD)
Wamensos emphasize the number of people’s schools will continue to increase
