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University, college grads find it harder to find jobs
Apparently university and diploma graduates in the country find it harder to find a job than high school graduates, the latest Central Statistics Agency (BPS) report reveals
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pparently university and diploma graduates in the country find it harder to find a job than high school graduates, the latest Central Statistics Agency (BPS) report reveals.
According to agency data released Thursday, of the 8.3 million unemployed people in Indonesia, university graduates account for 11.92 percent of total unemployment, while college graduates account for 12.78 percent.
Meanwhile, elementary school graduates’ share in the unemployment rate stands at only 3.81 percent, junior high school graduates (7.45 percent) and senior high school graduates (11.90 percent).
The open unemployment rate slid slightly to 7.14 percent in August, compared with 7.41 percent in February of this year and 7.87 percent in August 2009, BPS chairman said Wednesday.
“It is not that high compared to economic growth advancement. The employment rate is interconnected with economic growth. The higher the economic growth, the more jobs available,” said BPS chairman Rusman Heriawan.
The government previously said that every 1 percent of economic growth would create 400,000 jobs.
Indonesia’s economic growth reached 5.8 percent in the third quarter of this year, nearing the government’s full year target of 6 percent.
The number of workers in the country reached 108.2 million in August, a slight increase from 107.4 million in February and 104.9 million in August 2009, BPS data show. “So within a year, there’s been a 3.3 million increase in new employment,” Rusman said.
Fifty-five percent of the workers are elementary school graduates, while only 6.25 percent of them
are university graduates, latest BPS data show.
“Almost every sector experienced an increase in workers, except the agricultural and transportation sectors,” he added, citing uncertainties due to weather anomalies as the main factor that deter workers from working on farms, which experienced 0.28 percent decrease, or equal to 117,000 worker loss. (est)
