Overcoming Unemployment, Jakarta Provincial Government Creates Grand Strategy Plan

Jakarta Provincial Government keeps continuing its commitment in reducing unemployment rates in Jakarta through various strategic programs that focus on job creation and improving workforce skills.

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Moreover, several efforts are also made to create an inclusive employment ecosystem, by combining innovation, cross-sector collaboration, and a data-based approach.

Jakarta Regional Secretary's Economy and Financial Assistant, Sri Haryati Jakarta faces various challenges in employment sector such as the mismatch between supply and demand for labor, the high proportion of the informal sector, and the increasing need for technology-based labor.

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According to her, understanding the needs of the business world as a first step in overcoming unemployment is important.

"Employment also means supply and demand. Demand means how we can capture what the business world actually needs, and we prepare the supply. We also have to be able to create job, that is the most important," she said, Tuesday (12/10).

Based on Statistic Center Agency's data of August 2024, she added, the Open Unemployment Rate (TPT) for Jakarta is 6.21 percent, higher than the national average of 4.91 percent.

That is why Jakarta Provincial Government continues to prioritize efforts in reducing unemployment rates through a comprehensive approach. Sri continued that Jakarta Provincial Government is preparing an Unemployment Management System grand design. This is a comprehensive long-term strategic step.

"The grand design includes data utilization, identifying the problem, annual target, its achievements in the context of eradicating unemployment, then the strategy, and there must be an indicator of success of right solution for Jakarta," she added.

She continued that Jakarta Provincial Government is also ensuring that Jakarta's workforce has skills that are in accordance with industry needs and collaborates with the business world by revitalizing vocational education and training.

"Our focus is preparing supply. We have vocational schools, regional job training center, and also formal education. Then we also prepare the manpower based on the business world needs," she continued.

Jakarta Provincial Government also creates an integrated dashboard, a digital platform that integrates data on workforce, investment, MSMEs, job vacancy information, and other data related to employment in Jakarta.

The integrated dashboard can make it easier for public to identify job opportunities, supporting policy makers in monitoring the unemployment reduction strategies policy in Jakarta.

Sri explained that the integrated dashboard has several main features, including employment data and information, a job vacancy information portal, regional job training centers, Jakarta Worker Cards, a web-based Fixed-Term Employment Agreement (PKWT) recording system, including MSME development, ease of licensing, ease of investment and others.

"The dashboard integrates all data of Manpower Agency's units such as Regional Job Training Center, manpower placement, also from the MSME Agency, and other regional apparatuses," she stated.