Digital Talent Scholarship (DTS) is a competency development training program that has been provided to Indonesian digital talents since 2018. This program is intended to improve the skills and competitiveness, productivity, professionalism of human resources in the field of information and communication technology for the young Indonesian workforce, the general public, and state civil servants in the field of Communication and Digital so that it can increase the productivity and competitiveness of the nation in the Industry 4.0 era, and be able to meet the need for skilled workers in the technology field.
The DTS program is broadly divided into eight Academies, namely:
1. Fresh Graduate Academy (FGA)
2. Vocational School Graduate Academy (VSGA)
3. Thematic Academy (TA)
4. Professional Academy (ProA)
5. Government Transformation Academy (GTA)
6. Digital Entrepreneurship Academy (DEA)
7. Digital Leadership Academy (DLA)
8. Talent Scouting Academy (TSA)
The Ministry of Communication and Digital of the Republic of Indonesia in this case strives to create a balanced ecosystem to maximize the role of the pentahelix (government, community/society, higher education institutions, business world, and media) to become facilitators and accelerators supporting the digital economy.