Deputy chairman of the Prabowo-Gibran National Campaign Team (TKN) expert board, Budiman Sudjatmiko, said the candidates would launch an “advanced” school network that focuses on providing Indonesian children with equal access to education.

“From elementary to senior high school, no other candidate has proposed this idea,” Budiman said at the Prabowo-Gibran Digital Team (Pride) volunteer event in South Jakarta on Wednesday, as quoted by the cnnindonesia.com news portal.

Touching on another issue, Budiman also encouraged Indonesia’s leading campuses to collaborate with world-renowned campuses, which he said would allow Indonesian students to receive high-quality education.

“If necessary, [there should be] joint degrees with world-renowned campuses, like Bandung Institute of Technology with the National University of Singapore, or University of Indonesia with Harvard, for example. Establish a joint degree so we can have access [to high-quality education],” he said.

Under the “8 Best Quick Results Program” that the pair promotes, Prabowo and Gibran promise to build new schools and renovate existing ones. Additionally, the program also extends to free lunch and milk.

By doing so, Prabowo and Gibran are confident that the graduate quality will improve. Budiman said the entire program aimed to strengthen the younger generation’s endurance from infancy, to improve the quality of human resources.

Meanwhile, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, a member of the TKN Steering Committee, said Prabowo had aspired to implement the free lunch program since 2006.

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