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Indonesia was one of the first nations to volunteer to be a lead country in the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Employment Network (YEN), created to develop and implement strategies that give young people everywhere a real chance to find decent and productive work. The Network is a partnership between the UN, the World Bank and the ILO to bring together leaders of industry, youth and civil society representatives, and policy makers to explore imaginative approaches to the challenge of youth employment. The Indonesian Youth Employment Network was established in May 2003 translate this commitment into practical actions. A key priority of the IYENetwork has been to develop an Indonesia Youth Employment Action Plan (IYEAP) for the promotion of youth employment, to raise awareness and to mobilize partners for action. The objectives of the Plan are: To identify the key issues and challenges faced by young women and men in their transition through education to the workplace;
 To acknowledge that many policies, programs and activities already exist and to provide a platform for the sharing of information and knowledge at the national, provincial and district levels, that will enrich the various initiatives already being undertaken;
 To set priorities for action by policymakers and other stakeholders;
 To demonstrate the need for, and benefits of, an integrated approach to addressing the youth employment challenge;
 To provide a set of policy recommendations that can contribute to the creation of quality jobs, thereby reducing unemployment, under-employment and the numbers of young people living and working in poverty.
 To stimulate action by individuals and groups of stakeholders to involve themselves in processes and programs that directly and indirectly contributes to the generation of more and better jobs for young men and women;
 To urge provincial and district level governments to mainstream youth employment issues into economic and social policies, strategies and programs at the provincial and district levels.
 To encourage young men and women to participate in dialogue and collective action as a necessary pre-requisite for an accurate and effective response.
Policy recommendations
These are organized around four pillars:
a) Preparing Youth for Work: ensuring quality basic education for all young men and women, and developing a demand-driven vocational and technical education system;
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b) Creating Quality Jobs for Young Men and Women: focusing on the generation of formal sector jobs, but not forgetting the needs of the poor and disadvantaged youth;
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c) Fostering Entrepreneurship: empowering youth and facilitating their entry into business, and the gradual transformation of the informal economy to formal sector activities to create more and better jobs for young men and women; and
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d) Ensuring Equal Opportunities: giving young women the same opportunities as young men.
See the full version of theIndonesia Youth Employment Plan (475k pdf). Last update: October 2006 |
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