Jakarta. President Prabowo Subianto’s plan to equip Indonesian schools with hundreds of thousands of smart televisions will transform the learning process, according to M. Qodari, head of the Presidential Staff Office.

Qodari said the initiative will cover 330,000 schools, roughly 70 percent of Indonesia’s 450,000 schools, within Prabowo’s first year in office. “This is the first president who is committed to installing smart boards and smart TVs across the country’s schools,” Qodari said during his opening speech at B-Universe's DGVeRS event on Saturday. 

Prabowo has branded the rollout of interactive flat panels (IFPs) as a cornerstone of his push to modernize education. The president revealed that 10,000 schools have already received one device each. “We’ve started distributing them, but for now, it’s only one smart screen per school,” he said on Sept. 11.

The government will step up the effort in the coming months. Prabowo stressed that the long-term goal is for each classroom, not just each school, to be equipped with its own digital screen.

Local media outlet Tempo estimated the budget for the program in 2025 at Rp 7.9 trillion ($490 million). 

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