{"id":328788,"date":"2026-09-18T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/?p=328788"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:39:38","slug":"president-prabowo-pushes-for-free-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/en\/president-prabowo-pushes-for-free-education\/","title":{"rendered":"President Prabowo Pushes for Free Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-328790\" src=\"https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/President-Prabowo-Pushes-for-Free-Education.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/President-Prabowo-Pushes-for-Free-Education.png 735w, https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/President-Prabowo-Pushes-for-Free-Education-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/President-Prabowo-Pushes-for-Free-Education-689x460.png 689w, https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/President-Prabowo-Pushes-for-Free-Education-344x230.png 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Prabowo Subianto has reaffirmed his commitment to expanding access to education for all Indonesian children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President made the statement at the Final Event of the National Mandate Party\u2019s 28<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary at the Jakarta International Convention Center (JICC) in Jakarta on Friday (09\/18).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Head of State stated that he will convene a meeting soon to discuss efforts to provide free education at public education units, underscoring that education\u2014from primary to higher education\u2014must be widely accessible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cI will hold a meeting shortly. The bottom line is public education must be free. Education at public primary schools, junior high schools, senior high schools, and universities must be free,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Similarly, Chairperson of the National Mandate Party Zulkifli Hasan stated that education is key to shaping future leaders, adding that the younger generation must be equipped with education that can create excellent, smart, innovative, creative, and independent individuals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cA generation that loves their own nation and country, a generation with a strong identity\u2014the future belongs to them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Zulkifly also pointed out that quality education must be accessible to all Indonesian people, adding that it is the right of every citizen and the foundation for preparing future generations to take on a role in facing the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cQuality education must not be a luxury. It must not be limited to those who were born in big cities or into well-off families. Discrimination must not exist in education,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cFor that reason, we support People\u2019s Schools, Garuda Transformation Schools. We want Indonesian youth to not only watch the world change. They must be the ones changing the world\u2014the young and empowered that change Indonesia,\u201d he said. <strong>(BPMI of Presidential Secretariat) (DH\/AW)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Prabowo Subianto has reaffirmed his commitment to expanding access to education for all Indonesian children. The President made the statement at the Final Event of the National Mandate Party\u2019s 28th Anniversary at the Jakarta International Convention Center (JICC) in Jakarta on Friday (09\/18). The Head of State stated that he will convene a meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":328790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President Prabowo Pushes for Free Education - Sekretariat Kabinet Republik Indonesia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/en\/president-prabowo-pushes-for-free-education\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Prabowo Pushes for Free Education - Sekretariat Kabinet Republik Indonesia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Prabowo Subianto has reaffirmed his commitment to expanding access to education for all Indonesian children. 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