SOEs Ministry Introduces Candidates of #GirlsTakeover Program
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28 September 2021 11:17 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) Ministry announced that it will be committing to its gender welfare program touted as the #GirlsTakeover which will give a rare chance for six young women who passed the selection process and temporarily take over the position of SOEs Minister and president directors at 5 enterprises.
“The girls take over program shows the commitment from the SOEs Ministry and SOEs to improve women’s leadership,” SOEs Minister Erick Thohir wrote in a statement on September 27. “This aligns with the spirit of human capital transformation and women’s leadership.”
There are six finalists in this program who were chosen from the thousands of applicants that went through a strict selection process. The finalists will later on temporarily be given a rare chance to be in charge of leading and becoming the SOEs Minister, president director or Angkasa Pura I, Bank Mandiri, BRI, Kimia Farma, and Telkomsel.
The Ministry Erick Thohir leads is one of the more progressive ministries in terms of gender equality as it plans to increase women’s representation in the board of directors level to 15 percent this year and increase that to 25 percent by the year 2023. However, it currently logs 13 percent women’s representatives.
The candidates in the #GirlsTakeover program are: Andinda (19) technical information third semester student; Indira (23), an employee of a banking company; Putri Gayatri, a student and activist from Bandung; Sharon (24), a banking employee from Bekasi; Sisil (22), early childhood education (PAUD) teacher who actively teaches children at the coastline of the fishermen’s village; and lastly Virdha (22) a human resources and general affair actively engaged in one of Yogyakarta’s generic study centers.
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FRANCISCA CHRISTY ROSANA