Equality of Opportunity in Education and Training - Indonesia National Action Plan for Youth Employment 2004- 2007

Indonesia National Action Plan for Youth Employment 2004- 2007

Indonesia is one of the “lead” countries in the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Employment Network (YEN), created within the framework of the Millennium Declaration where Heads of States and Governments resolved to develop and implement strategies that give young people everywhere a real chance to find decent and productive work.

The Plan is an initiative of the Indonesia Youth Employment Network, which is a partnership between the UN, the World Bank and the ILO to bring together leaders of industry, youth and civil society representatives, and policy makers to explore imaginative approaches to the challenge of youth employment.

Indonesian Youth Employment Network (IYENetwork) Coordinating Team was established in 2003, under the leadership of its Ministry and that of the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration. It involves senior policy-makers, representatives of the private sector and civil society and youth organizations.

The policy recommendations of the Indonesia National Action Plan for Youth Employment 2004 – 2007 are organized around four pillars:

1. Preparing Youth for Work
2. Creating Quality Jobs for Young Men and Women
   
3. Fostering Entrepreneurship
   
4. Ensuring Equal Opportunities: giving young women the same opportunities as young men.
   
   

D. ENSURING EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

Recommends that policies should focus on equal access to quality and gender sensitive education and training for all young women and men and changing the perception of gender roles.

1. Recommendation D1: Disable Gender Stereotypes in Curricula and Gender Segregation in Education by

- Reviewing the existing educational curriculum to ensure that it is gender sensitive.

- Mainstreaming gender sensitive education through better coordination and information; through the sensitization of teachers at both the central and local levels. The Ministry for Women’s Empowerment should play a key role in increasing understanding among all stakeholders of the equal opportunities for young women and men.

- Strengthening the capacity of career guidance services in schools and colleges to ensure that guidance is gender sensitive.