Pramono Anung Encourages Jakarta Residents To Become Migrant Workers To Reduce Unemployment Rates

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung encourages DKI Jakarta residents who are still looking for work to become Indonesian migrant workers abroad as a solution to reduce the number of unemployed in the province.

"I really encourage residents to work abroad by providing foreign language training facilities," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Saturday, August 23.

Governor DKi also encouraged Jakarta residents to learn Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic and others so that they could work abroad. "We encourage that," he said.

In addition, his party also provides a job fair exhibition targeted to be held in Jakarta 21 times this year.

"Currently, 13 times the 'job fair' has been held and the results are that we bring together job seekers and job vacancies available," he said.

According to Pramono, from the evaluation carried out in the "job fair" held by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government, it has been able to absorb the workforce needed in a number of companies participating in the activity.

Previously, the DKI Jakarta Central Statistics Agency (BPS) released the State of Manpower in DKI Jakarta with the number of workforces based on the National Labor Force Survey (Sakernas) in February 2025 as many as 5.47 million people an increase of 41.62 thousand people compared to February 2024.

The Labor Force Participation Rate (TPAK) increased by 0.23 percentage points compared to February 2024.

The population working in February 2025 was 5.14 million people, an increase of 30.82 thousand people from February 2024. The business field that experienced the largest increase was Other Service Activities of 4.42 thousand people.

In February 2025 as many as 3.19 million people (62.05 percent) worked in formal activities, down by 1.89 percentage points compared to February 2024 and the Open Unemployment Rate (TPT) in February 2025 by 6.18 percent, up by 0.15 percentage points compared to February 2024.