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Indonesian Minister of Communication and Informatics, Rudiantara said, the participants of Digital Talent Scholarship Program will be included into the ministry’s database to help companies in seeking for skilled workers, especially digital skills. Minister Rudiantara in Makassar, last Tuesday said, the program that began in 2018 kept focusing on creating skilled manpower by accommodating one thousand participants with scholarship. This year, the program is expanded by accepting twenty five thousand participants. They are trained intensively to master hard skill and soft skill according to specialization in artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, cyber security, internet of things, machine learning, as well as other training themes. The Digital Talent Scholarship Program 2019 itself is a human resource development program conducted by Indonesian Communication and Information Technology Ministry as part of national priority development program. The Scholarship Program is a support from Indonesian government in developing national digital economic ecosystem through scholarship and training on communication and informatics field. The program is expected to elevate Indonesian manpower capacity to be more competitive and to fulfill the need of 4.0 industry. The Digital Talent Scholarship Program 2019 is basically divided into four academies, namely Fresh Graduate Academy, Vocational School Graduate Academy, Coding Teacher Academy, and Online Academy.