Nur Akmal

A few days ago, to be exact on Thursday Sep. 9 2014, Kompas Daily published news regarding the number of unemployed in Indonesia. The news stated that there are more than 600.000 college graduates are unemployed or not working. Most of them or 420.000 people, are bachelor degree and the rest are diploma. Meanwhile Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) by February 2014 stated that college graduates unemployed in Indonesia numbered 398.298 people or 4, 31 percent of total unemployed of 7.141.069 people. (Kompas, 30 September 2014) This number obviously is not small, it has must be considered, serious issue. Especially in less than three months to go we will head to ASEAN Economic Community 2015. Just less than 3 months. Considering that, unemployment issue in Indonesia certainly becomes very urgent. Of course we do not want our country crushed because of workforce competition eventually. We do not have any intention to be slaves in our own country, when in reality our human...

Recently Kompas Daily, along with Bandung Institute of Technology corporate formulated Indonesian Smart City Index (IKCI) which was released on 24 March 2015 in order to assess and rate the level of maturity of cities. Since last March until August 2015, Eventually Kompas R&D (Litbang) along with ITB, declared the rating and gave award to Surabaya as Indonesia Smart City 2015 at once. There are 93 cities are included in the rating of the smart city, respectively grouped into three categories based on population. Those are Big City with more than 1 million people. And the second, medium city with more than 200,000 people and the third is small city with maximum population 200.000 people.   Each city assessed based on three main aspects, Economical, Social, and environment. The result of Indonesia Smart City Index is: Category of cities with more than 200.000 people put Magelang City on the first place, followed by Madiun, Bontang, Mojokerto and Salatiga. While Categ...