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Opinion 7 years ago
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Vocational education: Matching needs for skills
Indonesia’s unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent in 2018 from 11.2 percent in 2005. Nevertheless, challenges in the labor market persist. In fact, the percentage of youth (aged 15 to 24 years) who are neither in school, nor working, nor undertaking training is still very high at 22.5 percent, an increase of 1.1 percentage points from the previous year and higher than the average rate of 13.1 percent in Southeast Asia.
Business 9 years ago
Retired skilled workers to revamp vocational schools as instructors
Industry Ministry secretary general Haris Munandar has introduced the Silver Hair Expert program, which allows retired skilled workers to become instructors at vocational schools (SMK), as part of government efforts to address the shortage of experienced teachers at such schools.
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