"While the financial losses to the country are still being formulated by investigators together with relevant parties. The magnitude of these losses has caused a stir in the public. Many netizens have expressed their opinions, questioning what could be done with such a large sum of money, amounting to Rp271 trillion?"

If you imagine a sum of money amounting to Rp271 trillion, it can certainly fund the education of children in the homeland. Moreover, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) recorded approximately 75,303 children who dropped out of school in 2021. Out of that number, 10,022 children dropped out of high school (SMA) level.

Even the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded that education costs in Indonesia contribute to inflation in Indonesia with an average increase in education costs in Indonesia of 10 percent per year. So how much money is spent for high school to undergraduate level?

If the total amount is around Rp72 million per child, then the detailed calculation of natural resource losses is Rp271 trillion, namely: Rp271,000,000,000,000 (natural resource losses) ÷ Rp32,000,000 (high school fees) + Rp40,000,000 (college fees) = 3.764 million children. Therefore, from these losses, it can provide free education for 3.7 million children for high school to bachelor's degree level.