JAKARTA - Rival campaigners in Indonesia's elections next month are sparring over ways to fix the education system in Southeast Asia's biggest economy, which is widely blamed for failing to equip students with the skills to find jobs.
"How ironic it is that this country's economy is the world's 15th or 16th biggest, but faces difficulties providing jobs for its youth," Uno said, adding that Indonesia's vocational school graduates are the largest chunk of its 7 million unemployed. Indonesia should be enjoying a demographic sweet spot with its youthful population, but 90 percent of its labour force of 131 million have no college degree and more than half works in informal sectors.
Pledging to emulate Germany's skills training system, Widodo's government wants to spend $1.22 billion in 2019 on improvements to 14,000 vocational schools which have 320,000 students, or more than double the past three years' spending. While a course on office management that replaced secretarial training taught use of a fax and even a typewriter, there were no courses on artificial intelligence or automation, she added.
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