Waka MPR encourages increasing access to education for women in rural areas

Jakarta – Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian MPR Lestari Moerdijat has encouraged increasing access to education for women, especially in rural areas. According to him, it is important to achieve equality and maximize the potential of national human resources (HR), while creating better and even well -being for every citizen. “In the process of his struggle, Ra Kartini believes that women can free themselves from the shackles of traditions through education and maximize their potential. The idea is still relevant today,” Lestari said in his statement Tuesday (4/15/2025). Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) in 2024, only about 6% of women in Indonesian rural areas continue their education to tertiary institutions. While in urban areas, 14% of women continue their education at tertiary institutions. BPS notes revealed that one of the causes of the gap was social and cultural factors. Browse to continue with the content Lestari said that similar conditions also occur on a world scale. Unesco reports in 2024, about 122 million girls scored in the world who did not attend the school. In addition, women are two -thirds of 765 million adults who do not have basic skills. As it is seen, Lestari said efforts to increase women’s participation in education should be consistent. “The void that takes place between women in town and in the city to gain access to education must be overcome immediately with a number of concrete steps,” he said. The woman known that Rerie is known has judged that the next generation of the nation should imitate the values ​​for which Ra Kartini fought in the opening of access to the same education for all, regardless of gender. This member of the House of Representatives Commission X of the Central -Java District II also emphasized that efforts to raise public awareness of the importance of women in education were important steps to be taken. Lestari also emphasizes the importance of strong consistency to understand the community to overcome the social and cultural obstacles that women face in the village in access to education. For this reason, he encouraged that stakeholders at central and regional level, as well as the community, could understand the values ​​of equality that Ra Kartini fought, in various ways to realize more reasonable well -being in the future. (PRF/EGA) HOEGENG Awards 2025 Read the inspiring story of the exemplary police candidate here