Jakarta, May 8 -- The Primary and Secondary Education Ministry has outlined a roadmap for Elementary School Teacher Competency Development Program for Teaching English (PKGSD-MBI) for the 2025-2029.

Director General of Teachers and Education Personnel at the ministry, Nunuk Suryani, stated here on Friday that the roadmap is intended to ensure that all 150 thousand elementary school will have teachers who are capable of teaching English for third-grade students within the next three years.

"Of the total around 150 thousand elementary schools in Indonesia, more than 90 thousand or around 60 percent, do not yet have teachers with an English language background," Suryani stated during the launch of the PKGSD Programme, which was broadcast o...