Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Business actors are concerned about the wave of layoffs (PHK) that will increase in size in the next few years. This is in line with the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic, which is not yet clear when it will end.
Chairperson of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Rosan P. Roeslani said the potential for continuing to increase new unemployment due to employees losing their jobs could be very happening.
“Our growth is at -1.7 to -0.6%, this could result in both poverty and especially unemployment. This will increase significantly. If we look at now our unemployment is around 7 million, this will increase to around 5 million even though “The possibility could increase between 4 million and 5 million people,” said Rosan CNBC Indonesia, Friday (25/9).
He divided the social impacts of economic growth into heavy and very heavy categories. The very tough scenario is the increase in poverty by 5.71 million people and unemployment increasing by 5.23 million people. Meanwhile, the severity scheme for poverty increased by 3.02 million people and unemployment increased by 4.03 million people.
This figure is very worrying, because employment opportunities have become increasingly narrow after entering the Covid-19 pandemic. The large number of collapsed sectors is also a problem because the reduction in staff continues. On the other hand, new graduates also need a place to work.
“Every year approximately 2 to 2.5 million people need new jobs. A new workforce of 2.24 million people, underemployed 8.14 million, underemployed 8.14 million people, part time workers 28.41 million people. “So this 46.84 million workers are not fully employed. Or 34.3% of the total workforce. This is quite a high number,” said Rosan.
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