Today's Top 3 News: One Garuda School Costs Minimum Rp200 Billion to Build, Minister Says
Reporter
October 9, 2025 | 10:29 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Tempo English compiled the top 3 news on Thursday, October 9, 2025. Here are the highlights: Minister Brian: One Garuda School Costs Minimum Rp200 Billion to Build; Manpower Ministry Mulls Second Batch of National Internship Program; and Germany Investigating China's Temu on Price-Fixing Suspicions.
The following is the list of the top 3 news on Tempo English today:
1. Minister Brian: One Garuda School Costs Minimum Rp200 Billion to Build
Brian Yuliarto, the Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology, stated that each new Garuda School requires a minimum budget of Rp200 billion. This funding is drawn from the state budget (APBN) managed by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology.
Brian mentioned that four new Garuda Schools have already entered the construction phase.
"These schools are being built in areas that do not have existing outstanding schools," he said after the introduction of the Garuda School program at SMAN Unggulan MH Thamrin in East Jakarta on Wednesday, October 8, 2025.
The Garuda distinguished schools are a priority program of the Prabowo Subianto government. The schools are specifically designed for students who demonstrate above-average achievements based on certain assessments.
2. Manpower Ministry Mulls Second Batch of National Internship Program
The government may add a new batch to the 2025 National Internship Program if the first phase is well-received by recent graduates.
"Later, if this is in line with what Pak Menko (Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto) has conveyed, if the interest is high, we can open for batch 2, batch 3," said Manpower Minister Yassierli at the National Development Planning Agency building in Jakarta, on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, as reported by Antara.
As an initial stage, the Ministry of Manpower has opened a quota for 20,000 recent graduates from higher education institutions to gain work experience and receive state incentives through the program.
The 2025 National Internship Program is a follow-up to President Prabowo Subianto's directive to accelerate the absorption of young workers through structured internships. The program focuses on various skill-based industrial sectors that align with current job market needs.
3. Germany Investigating China's Temu on Price-Fixing Suspicions
Germany's Federal Cartel Office on Wednesday announced an investigation into Chinese e-commerce giant Temu, saying it wanted to examine conditions for traders and the company's treatment of the suppliers it relies upon to sell products.
"Each month more than 100 million users from European marketplaces visit temu.com," Andreas Mundt, the president of the competition watchdog, said in a statement.
"For almost a year now the trading platform for German suppliers is also open. We are pursuing the suspicion that Temu could be setting unacceptable conditions for pricing for traders on the German marketplace," Mundt said.
"Such actions could pose dramatic threats to competition and ultimately lead to price increases in other sales channels as a result."
The investigation formally targets EU-wide parent company Whaleco Technology Limited (Temu) based in Dublin in notoriously corporation-tax-friendly EU member the Republic of Ireland.
Temu has an estimated 19.3 million active users in Germany, the equivalent of well over one quarter of the adult population.
Click here to get the latest news updates from Tempo on Google News
