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 resources
are able to compete with other ASEAN nations’.
It is obviously serious threat, because in
addition to the high level of our demography, the highest among those of ASEAN
member’s, the number of unemployment is also very high. And among them are
indeed educated unemployed.
Why this could be happened? Did thousand
state or private universities graduate hundred thousand even million students
in various fields every year? There are so many reasons why an explosion of
number of unemployment could be happened in Indonesia. One of which is the number
of available vacancies is not comparable with the number of potential worker.
So that competition between prospective workers increasingly fierce. Finally
there are more people that are not accepted to work.
Coupled
with level of competition of our human resources is arguably still have
shortage of experts in various certain fields. We still have little human
resources with competitiveness and expertise that make it ready to compete with
one another.