Jobless Dilemma: Pre-Employment Cards (Kartu Pra-Kerja) and Insects Association

English

Today, for some reason, suddenly I was in a bad mood, it felt lazy to create content on the HIVE Blog. Yes, all this time I have only been interested in content about insect photography, but sometimes you will get bored with just that content (insects).

In a coffee shop, I sat transfixed by myself, and just then a friend came along with a beaming face as if he had just found something to make him happy.

I had not had the chance to ask why he was so happy, he immediately informed me that he had just passed as The Kartu Pra-Kerja (pre-employment card) recipient.

The Kartu Pra-Kerja is a program launched by the Indonesian government for competency and entrepreneurship development aimed at job seekers, workers/laborers who have recently been fired from their jobs, and micro-entrepreneurs whose businesses have failed. The recipients of these pre-employment cards will later receive entrepreneurship training, and in addition, they will receive cash incentives of IDR 600,000/month.

My friend previously worked as a tailor, but during the Covid-19 pandemic, the turnover at the company he worked for had decreased significantly, and he had to accept dismissal by his boss.

I said he was really lucky, when things got worst he got a solution, which at least helped him deal with the financial crisis after being fired. "I, during the pandemic until today, have never received food Aid or incentives from the government. The only help I can receive is incentives from the Insect Association," I spontaneously told him.

Hearing my words, he laughed loudly. He asks am I kidding. Where are there insect associations? He had never heard of it at all. I smiled before answering. I told him that the insects had been helping me financially. He was still amazed and not satisfied with my answer.

Yup, so far I have been creating content about insect photography on the HIVE Blog, and from those posts, I get HIVE rewards which I can exchange in IDR, and that's enough to help my finances in difficult times like now. Yes, that is so. The Insect Association has been helping me financially lately. We both laughed. []

Bahasa

Hari ini entah mengapa secara tiba-tiba suasana hati saya sedang buruk, rasanya malas untuk membuat konten di HIVE Blog. Ya, selama ini saya hanya menaruh minat dengan konten tentang fotografi serangga, tetapi terkadang kau akan bosan hanya dengan konten itu-itu saja (serangga).

Di sebuah kedai kopi saya duduk terpaku sendirian, dan pada saat itu datang seorang teman dengan wajahnya yang berseri-seri, sepertinya dia baru saja mendapat suatu yang membuatnya bahagia.

Belum sempat saya bertanya kenapa dia begitu senang, dia lansung memberitahu saya bahwa dia baru saja dinyatakan lulus sebagai penerima kartu pra kerja.

Kartu pra-kerja adalah sebuah program yang dicanangkan oleh pemerintah Indonesia untuk pengembangan kompetensi dan kewirausahaan yang ditujukan bagi para pencari kerja, pekerja/buruh yang baru dipecat dari pekerjaannya, dan pelaku usaha mikro yang bisnisnya mengalami kegagalan. Para penerima kartu pra kerja ini, nantinya akan mendapatkan pelatihan kewirausahaan, di samping itu mereka akan menerima insentip uang sebesar IDR 600.000 perbulan.

Teman saya itu sebelumnya bekerja sebagai tukang jahit, tetapi selama pandemi Covid-19, omzet di perusahaan dia bekerja sangat menurun, dan dia harus menerima pemecatan oleh bosnya.

Saya mengatakan dia sungguh beruntung, di saat kondisi terpuruk dia mendapatkan solusi, yang setidaknya membantunya dalam menangani krisis keuangan setelah dipecat. "Saya,selama pandemi sampai dengan hari ini, sama sekali belum pernah mendapat bantuan makanan atau insentif dari pemerintah. Satu-satunya bantuan yang dapat saya terima adalah insetif dari Asosiasi Serangga," kata saya secara spontan kepadanya.

Mendengar perkataan saya, dia terbahak keras. Dia mempertanyakan apakah saya sedang bergurau? Mana ada asosiasi serangga? Dia sama sekali belum pernah mendengarnya. Saya tersenyum sebelum menjawabnya. Saya katakan kepadanya, selama ini serangga-serangga telah membantu keuangan saya. Dia masih terheran-heran dan belum merasa puas dengan jawaban saya.

Yup, selama ini saya membuat konten tentang fotografi serangga di HIVE Blog, dan dari postingan-postingan itu saya mendapatkan reward HIVE yang bisa saya tukarkan dalam IDR, dan itu cukup membantu keuangan saya di saat-saat sulit seperti sekarang ini. Ya, begitulah. Asosiasi Serangga telah membantu keuangan saya akhir-akhir-akhir ini. Kami berdua pun terbahak.[]

(All illustrations are my original work)

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