Kompas daily's headline today discusses the problem of education and unemployment. The number of unemployed high school graduates or higher this year reaches 4,5 million people. What is more striking, it is also reported that 30 percent jobs are still vacant in the labour market. The figure certainly illustrates how acute the 'miss-match' problem is in our employment sector.
As I refer back to my old post in January this year, this problem has been existing since 2004. The percentage of the educated but unemployed people has been steadily increased and now has reached the position of more than 50 percent. It means more than half of our unemployment rate come from those who are educated (see graph below).
Unemployed High School Graduates or Higher (%)
In our political agenda, the year 2004 was when the current government elected. Thus, since the Yudhoyono-Kalla administration started their job, the problem of unemployment has been deteriorating.
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'our political agenda' - are you with this gov't?
No, I meant our country's political agenda.
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