Ten million people jobless in Indonesia
Sunday, May 13, 2007
ABOUT 10 million people in Indonesia's work force are currently still unemployed, making it necessary for the government and other parties in the country to engage in serious efforts to change their fate, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Erman Suparno said.
According to a report by Indonesia's news agency, Antara, the minister made the remark in his address at the launching of a National Movement to Tackle Unemployment (GNPP) at Panglipuran village, Bangli districton Friday.
He said in 2006, the government was able to help one million jobless people find work in various fields, including in foreign countries.
"We hope there will be a significant increase in the figure in 2007. Our target is to find employment for 1.5 million people until the end of this year," he said.
About the people who had found work abroad, the minister said a less gratifying fact about them was that 75 per cent of their number were "informal" or unskilled workers.
"In the future, or our target this year, is to reverse the ratio - 75 per cent of those sent abroad must consist of professional or skilled workers," the minister said.
He did not mention the number of Indonesian workers who had been placed overseas but said his office would ease the procedures and system so far used to send workers overseas.
In the future, people who were going to work abroad would no longer need to pay various kinds of fiscal and administrative levies before leaving the country.
"We will revoke all the regulations on which those levies are based," he said, adding that thereby the total amount of pre-departure costs that would-be migrant workers had to bear would be cut by 40 per cent. Bernama
According to a report by Indonesia's news agency, Antara, the minister made the remark in his address at the launching of a National Movement to Tackle Unemployment (GNPP) at Panglipuran village, Bangli districton Friday.
He said in 2006, the government was able to help one million jobless people find work in various fields, including in foreign countries.
"We hope there will be a significant increase in the figure in 2007. Our target is to find employment for 1.5 million people until the end of this year," he said.
About the people who had found work abroad, the minister said a less gratifying fact about them was that 75 per cent of their number were "informal" or unskilled workers.
"In the future, or our target this year, is to reverse the ratio - 75 per cent of those sent abroad must consist of professional or skilled workers," the minister said.
He did not mention the number of Indonesian workers who had been placed overseas but said his office would ease the procedures and system so far used to send workers overseas.
In the future, people who were going to work abroad would no longer need to pay various kinds of fiscal and administrative levies before leaving the country.
"We will revoke all the regulations on which those levies are based," he said, adding that thereby the total amount of pre-departure costs that would-be migrant workers had to bear would be cut by 40 per cent. Bernama
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