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How Indonesian youth respond to COVID-19 pandemic
The ILO conducted two complementing surveys to learn about the impact of COVID-19 pandemic to Indonesian youth. The results revealed how youth deal with this ongoing crisis.
COVID-19: Promoting skills development
Indonesia to tackle skills mismatch through sector skills bodies
The ILO continue to support efforts taken by Indonesia to tackle skills mismatch and to promote greater involvement of industries in skills development. The pilot programmes will be targeted tourism and ICT sectors.
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From pandemic to business opportunity
A young entrepreneur from Jakarta has overcome the challenges of COVID-19 to expand her culinary business. She shared her inspiring business journey with Indonesian youth during an event supported by the ILO recently.
COVID-19: Promoting skills development
Get noticed for employment: The importance of personal branding for job seekers
As technology takes over the world, companies are turning to social media in hiring and recruiting their employees. Good personal branding, thus, can help youth to land their first employment or business opportunities.
COVID-19: Promoting skills development
Preparing youth with skills for employment and entrepreneurship
Youth unemployment remains a longstanding concern in Indonesia. A recent ‘Youth Talk’ supported by ILO helped empower young Indonesians with new, inspiring insights about youth employability and entrepreneurship.
COVID-19: Promoting skills development
Indonesia moves towards online training deliveries
The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown measures have led to the worldwide closure of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions, including in Indonesia, threatening the continuity of skills development.
COVID-19: Promoting skills development
Supporting the development of digital learning in Indonesia
The ILO through its skills development programmes supports the capacity building of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in 47 countries, including Indonesia. Nine Indonesian representatives have been part of the ILO’s e-learning...
Opinion editorial on COVID-19 and skills development
Why skills development is even more imperative for Indonesia
An opinion editorial by Tauvik Muhamad and Dede Sudono, Project Manager and Project Officer, respectively, of the ILO's industry Skills for Inclusive Growth Phase-2 Project, focusing on the importance of skills development for Indonesia. The opinion...
COVID-19: Promoting skills development
Skills development during and after the pandemic: Challenges and opportunities
Skills development can improve productivity and help workers, including youth, diversify their employment opportunities. Yet, skills development programmes have been greatly affected by the COVID-19 epidemic. Tauvik Muhamad, ILO’s Japan Skills...
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Industry-school partnership gives better opportunity for youth to decent jobs
The ILO’s latest survey reveals the voices of Indonesian youth on transitioning from school to work. It is already a tough challenge to make transition into decent employment for youth even in best economic times. It is even tougher during the...
COVID-19: Promoting skills development
Partnership between Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Industry: Key to workplace readiness
Indonesian government, businesses and technical vocational education and training providers are facing the challenge of high levels of youth unemployment and a shortage of job seekers with critical skills, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic....
COVID-19: Promoting skills development
Engaging industrial sectors to address skills mismatch and economic recovery
Engagement of industries is the key for enhancing skills development. Indonesia, with support from the ILO, have promoted greater partnership with industrial sectors to address skills gap and mismatch as part of the economic recovery after the...
COVID-19: Promoting skills development
Indonesian trade unions take an active role in skills and employment development
Trade unions have an important, strategic role in contributing to skills development programme and in addressing youth unemployment. Six trade unions confederations, with support from the ILO, have developed their position paper to be part of the...
COVID-19: Promoting skills development
Towards skillful generation of Indonesia through enhanced online vocational learning
Responding to the growing importance of digital distance vocational learning in Indonesia as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ILO in collaboration with the Australian Embassy in Indonesia are organizing a series of weekly webinar on this...
COVID-19: Promoting skills development
Promoting quality company-based apprenticeship programmes
The current COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting people’s everyday way of living. Besides being a global health crisis, it is also a major social and economic crisis, and in relation to our work and education, it is affecting the way we work and learn in...
COVID-19: Promoting skills development
Strengthening partnership between TVET and industry to address skills mismatch in digital era
Making the transition into decent employment is a tough challenge for young people, even in the best economic times and particularly worse during the crisis like the COVID-19 outbreak. The ILO and its partners examined ways to address digital skills...
ILO 100 on skills development
Closing the gap in skills development through the acceleration of digital and e-learning programmes
The advancement of digitalization and technology has eliminated time and space boundaries, providing an opportunity for people living in rural areas to have a greater access to good quality training at an affordable cost through distance and...
ILO 100 on skills development
Indonesia’s tax deduction programme to attract more industries involved in apprenticeship
Indonesia continues to promote greater involvement of industries in the apprenticeship programme to ensure improvements of its human resources. One of the means is through a tax incentives of 200 percent.
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Producing skilled workers linked with needs of industries
SMK Mitra Industri MM2100 has developed four types of partnerships with the industries, aimed to not only improve its students’ working skills but also to enhance the capabilities of its teachers and instructors according to the changing needs of...
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A synergy between polytechnics and industries to produce skilled workers
The world of work needs professional and skilled workers. A strong synergy between polytechnics and industries, as shown by Politeknik APP Jakarta, is able to ensure the absorption of polytechnic graduates by the industries.