In developing countries like Indonesia, the economic development of the country's unemployment is a complicated problem and more serious than the problem of changes in income disribusi less profitable low-income population. The situation in developing countries in recent decades indicates that economic development has been created is not able to provide employment opportunities faster than population growth. Therefore, the unemployment problem that they face from year to year is serious.The problem of unemployment will cause a negative impact to the survival of nation and state. The negative impact of unemployment is a growing diversity of criminal acts, the increasing number of street children, beggars, street singers and so on child trafficking has become a social pathology or social disease germs that spread like a virus that is difficult in eradicate.
Social disease is very dangerous and produce social sacrifices worthless. Declining quality of human resources, not in appreciate the dignity and human dignity which is the social victims of social ills. Therefore, this unemployment problem should be solved as soon as possible in and sought a way out. However, it should be grateful because the conditions of employment in Indonesia in the past year or until the first quarter of 2010 indicate a slight improvement. This is illustrated by an increase in the working population and declining unemployment. In the first quarter of 2010 total labor force reached 116 million people rose 2.26 million people compared with the previous year same quarter in 2009 which amounted to 113.74 million people. While working population also increased, in the first quarter of 2010 reached 107.41 million, up from the first quarter of 2009 amounted to 2.92 million people who previously 104.49 million people.
Meanwhile, unemployment in Indonesia in the first quarter of 2010 reached 8.59 million people or 7.41 percent of total labor force, has decreased by about 670 thousand persons when compared with the previous year or the first quarter of 2009 which amounted to 8, 14 percent.
The increase of the total working population in the first quarter of 2010 was mainly in the social service sector which amounted to 1.62 million people (11.52%) and in the agricultural sector amounted to 1.22 million people (2.92%). While the sector has decreased the consumption sector amounted to 11.70 percent and transport sector amounted to 4.91 percent. Thus the social services sector, industry and trade became the largest contributor to employment in the first quarter 2010.Penduduk who work according to work status. In a simple formal and informal activities of the working population can be identified based on employment status. From category includes formal employment.
categories of workers trying to help fixed and categories of employees, the rest including informal workers. Based on data from Central Bureau of Statistics in the first quarter of 2010 as many as 33.74 million (31.42%) of Indonesian workers working on the activities and the formal sector, there are 73.67 million people (68.58%) worked in the informal sector. Of 107.41 people who work at the same time, most major worker status as workers / employees and reached 30.72 million, or approximately 28.61 percent, followed by attempted assisted by temporary workers (daily hunting / volume) of 21, 92 million people or 20.41 percent and try to own some 20.46 million people or 19.05% while the rest are trying to help workers stay.Working population by education. Total working population by highest education attained for all education groups has increased, where in the first quarter of 2009 workers who work with graduates of the University as much as 4.22 million people.
for the same quarter of 2010 increased to 4.94 million people. Meanwhile, for workers who work with graduate Diploma 1 / 11 / III in the first quarter of 2009 as many as 2.68 million people in the same quarter of 2010 rose to 2.89 million people while for workers with secondary vocational education school last also an increase , in the first quarter of 2009 as many as 7.19 million people for the same quarter of 2010 increased to 8.34 million people. While at the same time, workers in elementary school education still remains high down to around 55.31 million people, while the number of workers with higher education are still relatively small. Workers with education diplomas approximately 2.69 percent and workers with graduate education persen.Pemerintah only equal 4.60 in 2010 to target the unemployment rate to 8 percent in Indonesia, to meet the target Indonesian government is targeting economic growth of 5-6 percent with growth economy is expected to create 2.3 million new jobs.
