The unemployment rate is 7.7 percent higher than before. It is due to the pandemic as the number of recorded dissimilarities also increasedJakarta (ANTARA) - The South Jakarta Office of Manpower, Transmigration, and Energy had various skills training for the community to reduce the region's unemployment rate. The skills training, which included baking cakes, making crafts, and so on, helped participants receive resources to build their businesses, head of the office Sudrajat said.
"In South Jakarta, we conduct online training in collaboration with universities. We invite them to join the Jakpreneur. In training, for example, we create crafts. It is a routine we do every month," Sudrajat told Antara, Monday.
As of September 2021, the open unemployment rate in South Jakarta reached 122,390 from the total working-age demographic of 1,777,204, he added.
According to him, the open unemployment rate is linked to the COVID-19 pandemic that has hit the country since early 2020.
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"The unemployment rate is 7.7 percent higher than before. It is due to the pandemic as the number of recorded dissimilarities also increased," he expounded.
The data recorded in the South Jakarta's Manpower, Transmigration, and Energy office has included factors such as job terminations, he continued.
If both parties agree to accept the termination, the data will not reach the office's record, Sudrajat said.
In addition to organizing a series of training workshops, the office also asks companies to meet employees halfway to avoid terminating their employment, he explained.
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"An example is the reduction of working hours and salaries such as non-permanent benefits on the basis of deliberation and consensus to workers or employees," he added.
Sudrajat also hoped that the endeavors by the office would help to reduce the unemployment rates in South Jakarta.
Related to training for job skills, the Ministry of Manpower will expand the Community Work Training Centers (BLK) network by building 787 BLKs across Indonesia this year, Minister Ida Fauziyah had said.
With the establishment of the BLKs, the human resources' competency can improve, thus creating a qualified workforce, the minister added.
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