Professional Documents
Culture Documents
By
MUHAMAD IQBAL
(SOUTHEAST SULAWESI)
Unemployment is about people who want paid work, but dont have it. So it represents
hopes and plans that are unfulfilled because there is not enough money in the household to pay
for them, and ambitions that go unrealised because people cannot utilise their skills and talents.
For young people, emerging into the labour market from education, the experience of hopes
being dashed can affect their prospects for the rest of their lives. Young people facing
challenging context, and are therefore more likely to face unemployment than if they had grown
up into an expanding economy. Starting to enter the labour market in a recession is a piece of
random bad luck. Expectations, aspirations and plans formed in better times are postponed,
perhaps indefinitely.
Young Southeast Sulawesi are enduring staggeringly high rates of joblessness. The
official unemployment rate for 16 to 24 year olds is 14.5 percent, and has been in the double-
digits for seven straight years. Over three million young people are unemployed, and many
more have dropped out of the labor market entirely. While the unemployment rate for young
workers has long been substantially higher than that of older workers, the severe job losses and
anemic labor market recovery from the Great Recession have left millions of young workers
in a particularly tough spot. A quarter of the job losses for young workers came after the Great
Recession was officially over. Moreover, the rising number of young people connected to
neither education nor the labor market is of particular concern. Nearly 15 percent of 16 to 24
year olds, are neither working nor in school. The recession has made the crucial transition from
school to work particularly difficult. Youth unemployment is one of the most serious economic
Todays labor market failures have long-term consequences for unemployed youth. A
growing academic literature on the scarring effects of launching a career without a job
suggests that young people who endure early spells of unemployment are likely to have lower
wages and greater odds of future unemployment than those who dont. Studies indicate a 10 to
15 percent wage scar from early unemployment, and those earnings losses persist for at least
20 years. These findings hold for individuals with a college degree, and the prognosis for
The basic principle should apply to the services that provide support for young people,
which should ensure that support for seeking work be provided to those in learning, and vice
versa. This should bring together the job-related support provided through Jobcentre Plus and
what remains of the Careers Service for those youth unempolyement. So the best way to reduce
of youth unemployement on Southeast Sulawesi is Rumah Kreatif. Rumah kretaif will learn to
them how to find and increase their skill. Such as the youth will increase their skill about
otomotif so they will learn otomotif from a expert of otomatif and so on. The action will
increase the skill of the youth unempolyemnt on southeast sulawesi. If the skills serviced
existed, arguably young people would have been more likely to engage with a service offering
an additional financial support and a push towards both work and learning.