Indonesia
Strategies for youth employment
- Strategies for youth employment
- Yes
Youth employment strategy planned in the next 2 years
- Discussions within the government
- Yes
- Consultations with national-level stakeholders (e.g. employers’ and workers’ associations, youth councils, etc.)
- Yes
- A draft strategy already exists
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Countries with national action plans for youth employment
- Monitoring framework (timeline and activity/outcome indicators, e.g. youth labour market indicators)
- Yes
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- Yes
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- Yes
- Other, specify
- No
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
The budget allocations aimed at various youth programs are available and spreading across many ministries because youth development is a cross-sector responsibility, and various program targeting the youth can be found in almost all ministries. Here are some ministries that we can identify: 1. Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology 2. Ministry of Religious Affair 3. Ministry of Environment and Forestry 4. Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy 5. Ministry of Communication and Informatics 6. Ministry of Social Affairs 7. Ministry of Industry 8. Ministry of Health 9. Ministry of Agriculture 10. Ministry of Transportation 11. Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries 12. Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration 13. Ministry of Youth and Sports Affair 14. Ministry of Female Empowerment and Childe Protection 15. Ministry of Cooperatives and Small & Medium Enterprises 16. Ministry of Manpower 17. Ministry of Internal Affairs 18. Ministry of National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency 19. Pancasila Ideology Development Agency 20. National Narcotics AgencyYouth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Indonesia includes youth as a target group in its National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) and Annual Government Work Plan (RKP), both of which are coordinated by the Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas). These planning documents set out strategic targets and programs to improve youth employment, skills development, and economic inclusion. • The RPJMN outlines multi-year objectives focusing on enhancing youth employability, expanding vocational training (TVET), and fostering entrepreneurship. • The RKP translates these into annual targets and performance indicators—including specific programs for youth job creation, training incentives, and internships.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Each officially adopted document for youth employment has goals or objectives. For example, the Annual Government Work Plan 2024, the policy direction and strategy for improving the quality of youth is focused on: 1. Strengthening coordination across youth service sectors, especially central and regional synergy, including encouraging the acceleration of the preparation of regulations at the regional level as well as monitoring and evaluating their implementation in an integrated process; 2. Increasing the active participation of area-based youth in a safe and meaningful manner, including in innovation and technology-based entrepreneurship; and 3. Preventing risky behaviour among youth, including preventing the dangers of violence, bullying, intolerance, drug abuse, alcoholism, the spread of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. While policy to improve youth competitiveness is focus on: 1. Increasing the distribution of quality educational services; 2. Improving TVET system based on industry collaboration; 3. Developing world-class labour market information system; 4. Developing adaptive and innovative study programs and curricula.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
• Increase the Youth Development Index from 52.67 in 2019 to 57.67 by 2024. • Increase the proportion of youth entrepreneurs in white-collar occupations from 0.48 in 2022 to 0.55 by 2024. • Increase the proportion of the workforce with upper secondary education from 44.57% in 2022 to 49.75% by 2024. • Raise the gross enrollment rate in higher education from 31.16% in 2022 to 32.28% by 2024. • Increase the percentage of higher education graduates employed within one year of graduation from 59.99% in 2022 to 61.71% by 2024. • Increase the number of students developing entrepreneurial innovations from 3,781 in 2022 to 5,000 by 2024. • Increase the number of vocational higher education students taking professional competency tests from 12,130 in 2022 to 15,000 by 2024.Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- Yes
- Enterprise Development
- Yes
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- Yes
- Labour Law and Legislation
- Yes
- Labour Market Policies
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- Yes
Social partners' inclusion in the youth employment strategy
- Workers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Informed
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Consulted
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Employers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Consulted
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Consulted
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- No
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Yes
- Consulted
- No
- Informed
- No
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Preparation and initiation of the National Strategy for Youth Entrepreneurship pilot project supported by the Indonesian Government-UNFPA Cooperation Program. Furthermore, this effort is also supported by UNDP through Youth Co:Lab which is involved in National Strategy for Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Advocacy in 2023 • Implementation of TVET has involved the industries/private sectors as partners, including in preparing vocational and polytechnic curricula, implementing internships, and teaching practitioners at vocational schools/polytechnics. • At the Ministry of Education and Culture, there are programs for Superior Central Vocational Schools (Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Pusat Unggulan), Vocational Schools that support Industry 4.0, Partnerships between vocational education units and industries/private sectors, strengthening internships, teaching factories, and student certification which encourage Vocational Schools to collaborate with industries/private sectors. _____________ 2022: 1. Skills to Succeed Indonesia: Training of Skill to Work and Entrepreneurship for Youth – Save the Children Indonesia/Yayasan Sayangi Tunas Cilik and Accenture Indonesia. Skills to Succed Indonessia focuses on improving youth work readiness by developing 4 main training modules (soft skills, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and career guidance), as well as one financial literacy application (Dooit, available on Google Playstore). This programme helps train teachers, students or job seekers, including those with disabilities. Hopefully this programme will be replicated and adopted through Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, and Ministry of Manpower to all Indonesian Vocational School, so in the medium to long term may help lower unemployment rate and increase the productivity of Indonesian youth. 2. Skilled Youth Homes (Rumah Muda Terampil/RMT) – Indonesia Business Links and Accenture Indonesia Skilled youth home is implemented in Ngembeh Village, Dlanggu District, Mojokerto Regency East Java by Indonesia Business Links and Accenture Indonesia with local stakeholders. This programme is directed for young people and women’s group to encourage them to start a business and become reliable young entrepreneurs, and also to create jobs for local communities through an eco-business model and ensure programme sustainability through social entrepreneurship.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- Yes
- NEETs
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- Yes
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
2025: 1. GoI-UNFPA Cooperation Program, in the context of preparing and initiating the National Strategy for Youth Entrepreneurship pilot project in 2021-2023. 2. UNDP support through Youth Co:Lab in the context of advocacy for the National Strategy for Youth Entrepreneurship in 2023. ____________________ 2022: ILO Jakarta is supporting Bappenas to develop SDGs Baseline Study on Decent Work in which there are indicators related to youth employment. 2. International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is collaborating with Ministry of Agriculture to create strong and good quality of millennial entrepreneurs through the Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment Support Services (YESS). 3. GoI and UNFPA Cooperation Program is supporting the process of preparing the National Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy through the 2020 Annual Work Plan (AWP) under the coordination of the Directorate of Families, Women, Children, Youth, Sports, Bappenas. Support provided in the form of providing consultants and funding for the entire series of FGDs with both central and local governments, academics, private sector, incubators, communities and/or youth business actors.