Tempo Explain: Yang Muda Yang Tak Bekerja, Mengapa Banyak Gen Z Menganggur?

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00:00GENZ is one of the most unemployed people in Indonesia

00:05The mismatch between the needs of the industry and the new labor force

00:08is indeed one of the root causes of many unemployed people

00:12The Minister of Labor, Ida Fauzia,

00:14lists the highest number of unemployed people

00:16among the GENZ population since they graduated from high school

00:21Based on the data of the Statistics Center,

00:23young people, or GENZ, are the largest contributors to the unemployment rate

00:27GENZ is a population that was born between 1997 and 2012

00:32The population projection from the BPS

00:34indicates that the number of GENZ in 2024

00:36reached 80 to 85 million people

00:41The latest data from the survey of the National Labor Force of the BPS

00:44indicates that the labor force per February 2024

00:47reached 149.38 million people

00:51Meanwhile, the unemployment rate reached 4.82%

00:55or 7.20 million people

00:57As many as 16.82% aged 15 to 24 years

01:04The unemployment rate once jumped during the pandemic

01:06but has fallen since the last three years

01:08Although it tends to fall,

01:10the number of young unemployed people remains high

01:12To solve this problem,

01:14the government introduced President's Regulation No. 68 of 2022

01:18on the revitalization of vocational education and vocational training

01:22Through this regulation,

01:23the government requires educational institutions and training institutions

01:26to adjust their programs to the needs of the business and industry world

01:31Two years after the regulation was passed,

01:33the Indonesian Employers Association or APINDO

01:35assessed the unemployment problem among young people

01:38is still not resolved

01:40The head of the labor force of APINDO, Bob Azam,

01:42assessed the mismatch between the needs of the industry

01:45and the skill of graduates is still a problem

01:50According to Bob, the government must also build an industry

01:52that can absorb labor

01:54and focus on education and training budgets

01:56to make it more effective

01:58On the other hand, APINDO revealed

02:00the weakness of the labor-intensive industry

02:02while the capital-intensive industry cannot absorb labor

02:05As a result, there is a shift from the formal sector to the informal sector

02:11The shift of GENZ's employment absorption

02:13to this informal sector

02:15also became a reference point for the Executive Director of INDEF,

02:17Esther Sriastuti

02:19According to her,

02:20one of the reasons for the high unemployment rate among young people

02:23is a lot of undetected GENZ jobs

02:26such as creating social media content on Instagram,

02:29YouTube, and other online platforms

02:33Therefore, Esther does not see the high unemployment rate

02:37because the needs in the labor market

02:39are not suitable for the available resource qualifications

02:42To overcome this,

02:44Esther hopes the government can improve the quality of human resources

02:47as well as create a program that connects graduates with the labor market

02:51She said, change of curriculum is also needed

02:54to be more in line with the needs of the industry

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