Guidelines for school counsellors – supporting the job and education decisions of young Indonesians
Progress in the education and skills levels of youth are not sufficient enough to reduce unemployment if the education choices of students are not in line with the demands of the labour market. Providing support to youth when they have to make tough choices on what school to join, or what job to take, helps to bridge this gap. This manual is intended to help reconcile the education choices of young Indonesians with the jobs that are available on the market.
The current ILO-ABKIN manual complements the Self Development Manual by (a) providing a user friendly reference to school counsellors in junior high schools, senior high schools and senior vocational high schools on how to help students make education decisions that make sense in the context of the labour market, and (b) proposing a minimum package of 25 learning hours of job and education counselling per school year (as a first step towards the implementation of two weekly hours prescribed in the Ministerial decree).