Working for Freedom

Only recently we celebrated our 70 year old freedom from oppressions. Since then, we have survived tumultuous conditions, be it political or economic crises. The worst is yet to come, though. It is predicted that the incoming “Demographic Dividend” may not be a bonus at all.[1] The reason being a lot of our productive age citizens are being too unoccupied. Not to mention, Indonesia’s economic climate has not been faring well recently, thus the increase of unemployment from 5.70% in 2014 to 5.81% last February.[2] The current constriction of the economy lessens labor to job field ratio. There is a 3 million increment in Indonesia’s workforce compared to February last year, but only one million were absorbed ever since.[3] If this is a recurring phenomenon, then the number will jump to extreme heights when the demographic bonus hit in the future.