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The Jakarta Smart Card (KJP) program budget in 2015 reached Rp 2.3 trillion, a 244 percent increase compared to the previous year's Rp 669 billion. Then in 2016, the Jakarta Provincial Government budgeted Rp 2.5 trillion for the KJP, an 8.7 percent increase from the previous year.
Similarly, the number of KJP recipients in 2016 reached 692,000 students, a 23.26 percent increase from the previous year's 561,408 students. To reduce school dropouts, the Jakarta Provincial Government allocated a significant portion of its budget to the education sector. One example is the KJP, aimed at easing school expenses for students.
The average dropout rate for elementary school is only 0.027 percent, 0.15 percent for junior high school, and 0.45 percent for senior high school/vocational school.
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