Ref: Apakah pengganguran adalah asalah terbaru dan oleh karena itu baru sekarang dibentuk team untuk mengatasinya. Doktor ekeominya itu pergi kemana?
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/sby-creates-team-to-tackle-unemployment-in-indonesia/559679 SBY Creates Team to Tackle Unemployment in Indonesia Arientha Primanita & Muhamad Al Azhari | December 04, 2012 President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has established a team for job creation to tackle unemployment in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday established a team for job creation to tackle unemployment and provide incentives for companies to draw from Indonesia’s vast labor pool. Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Rajasa said he was asked by the president to lead the team after Yudhoyono led a limited cabinet meeting on the issue at the State Palace. “The bottom line is for 2013 and 2014, we will continue to create jobs from the many sectors that we have. The key is to maintain our growth momentum,” said Hatta. “We are in talks so that companies that employ many workers can be given a fiscal incentive.” The government, he said, has given tax breaks for businesses that can create significant numbers of jobs. Hatta said there were 500,000 new jobs created each year, but the president has expressed hopes that the new team can create up to twice as many. The government, he said, is also aiming to reduce the unemployment rate to 5 percent in 2014. The jobless rate currently stands at 6.32 percent, or around 7.24 million people, according to data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS). The total labor force in Indonesia — which has a population of 240 million — is 118 million . The move comes just weeks after the Jakarta administration agreed to increase the 2013 minimum wage by 44 percent, setting off a wave of hefty increases in other parts of the country and prompting captains of industry to warn of a substantial risk of job losses. After Monday’s announcement, business executives and economists in Jakarta said the government needed to develop jobs in the industrial and service sectors. “The problem with Indonesia’s labor sector is that around 36 percent of our workers are employed in the agricultural sector. Ideally, in line with economic growth, we should gradually shift it into the industrial or services sectors,” Eric Alexander Sugandi, an economist at Standard Chartered Bank, said in Jakarta. He said that government agencies should work together in creating programs such as vocational education to prepare people to join the workforce. Yudhoyono said before Monday’s meeting that it was important for Indonesia to take advantage of its booming economy to create jobs. The economy grew 6.2 percent in the third quarter. “The first thing we need is job security. Those who have work must not in any circumstances be laid off. There must not be a new wave of unemployment,” the president said. “Second is job creation. Our goal for the next two years is to create more jobs, particularly for the younger generation. We need to pay special attention to them.” The government is aiming to secure more than Rp 4,000 trillion ($417 billion) in the next few years to boost infrastructure such as ports, seaports and roads. Yudhoyono said the government will boost its role in creating new jobs, saying his administration will ensure that more people will have the opportunity to work as civil servants as well as creating more jobs in the military and police force. “This is also a source for job creation. Every year we have people retiring and every year there are new recruits,” he said. The Ministry for State Bureaucratic Reform recently enacted a moratorium on recruiting more civil servants, which Yudhoyono said will be reviewed. The government earlier argued that adding more civil servants would put a strain on the nation’s budget and outweighs its needs. Yudhoyono said the government will also stimulate the development of the agriculture and services sectors. As Indonesia’s economy booms and people’s buying power increases, there will be greater demand for food and services, which the government must use to create more jobs, he said. The president said the central and regional governments must unite with unions to make layoffs more difficult, despite earlier claims from employers that rigid labor laws were problematic. Indonesia has competition among G-20 states, particularly Russia, which seeks to boost economic growth and create more jobs. “What will this require?” President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday on the G-20 website. “We think the answer is clear: investment incentives, trust and transparency in markets, and effective regulation.” [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
