Indonesia, learning
Kartu Prakerja, a national lifelong-learning delivery system
Indonesia's Kartu Prakerja skills programme reached 18.9 million beneficiaries across the country in its first five years, with 347 accredited training providers offering 2,085 online and offline courses in 58 districts and cities in the 2024 report.
18,900,000 people, kartu prakerja beneficiaries reached, 2024. 2,085 programmes, accredited training programmes offered, 2024. Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Kartu Prakerja Program Management Report 2024, retrieved 2026-08-31.
The move, and what it needed
Indonesia used an end-to-end digital application, training marketplace and payment rails to move a skills benefit from central government to workers, while accrediting private providers and changing the scheme after the pandemic.
Preconditions
- A digital identity and payment channel that can verify applicants at scale
- A quality-assurance process for many public and private training providers
- Labour-market feedback strong enough to refresh the course catalogue
Where it travelled: The design has been studied by Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. The transferable piece is the operating marketplace and evaluation loop, not the beneficiary total by itself.
Limits: Beneficiary and course counts show the reach of a training marketplace, not whether skills were retained, led to better work or were relevant to each participant. The report is produced by the programme manager, and the 58-district course figure is not the same as equal course availability in every district or a national adult-learning rate.
This record describes what Indonesia delivered. It is linked to Adult learning participation because no comparable dataset measures that capability. It does not affect the score or confidence.
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The same gap elsewhere
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