Action plan for Education 2018

Financial literacy education is very necessary to educate people who are aware and understand about how to manage finances wisely and as needed. Financial literacy education should be given as early as possible to children, especially in pre-school and elementary school children because with the introduction of knowledge of financial literacy early on will make the children accustomed to manage finance well and right in the future.

In Indonesia, financial literacy education is still a very rare thing to do. Whether in the family or school sphere, the provision of education on financial literacy has not been done seriously and planned. In our society culture is a taboo to talk about everything about money in the presence of children.
That is why knowledge, attitudes, and skills about family financial health have not received sufficient portion in the curriculum of primary and secondary education. Therefore, the view that financial literacy is not a life skills (life skills) that must be supplied to the child.

Education of financial literacy in children is not just the introduction of money, but further education of financial literacy in children is a concept about the introduction of financial management wisely and able to control financial expenditure by distinguishing which is the need and which is just a desire.

"The earlier the learners realize the benefits of savvy saving habits, the greater the benefits for their future. Although it looks simple, but its long-term effects will be felt, "