Coordinating Minister Airlangga Says Implementation Of Learning Continue Can Improve Workers' Productivity

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto encourages the implementation of continuous learning or continuous learning to increase worker productivity.

"And this demographic bonus is to determine whether our country, Indonesia, is able to escape the trap of a middle country. Now this is a challenge for us, so we have to increase productivity and we have to continue learning or learn continuously," said Coordinating Minister Airlangga as quoted by Antara, Saturday, July 9.

Related to this, the government seeks to foster labor productivity by improving the quality of workers, one of which is through the Pre-Employment Card program which is all carried out digitally.

He conveyed this in his remarks when opening the IX Congress of All-Indonesian Trade Union Confederation (KSBSI) in Jakarta.

In addition, Coordinating Minister Airlangga explained that the energy transition from fossil-based energy to New Renewable Energy (EBT) will have many job opportunities, including solar-based industrial development, geothermal development, hydro energy development, and green energy industries.

This will be important because the green energy sector is closely related to the workers.

Furthermore, he appreciated KSBSI for the success of the G20 event, which KSBSI played an active role in Labour20.

One of the other policies made by the Government is the National Strategic Project. And this National Strategic Project employs a lot of workforce. Now, what we continue to encourage is that the essence of almost all government work programs is to encourage job creation," he said.

Meanwhile, Coordinating Minister Airlangga explained that the post-COVID-19 pandemic conditions had accelerated the development and implementation of digitalization in all fields, including in the labor sector.

Many industrial activities that have been automated have an impact on the decline in demand in the labor market.

Indonesia is currently also faced with a demographic bonus challenge, which in 2030 it is estimated that the number of working-age residents will reach 201 million people or the equivalent of 68.1 percent of the total population.

These challenges show that job provision is an important thing that must be prepared so that labor participation can continue to increase along with the increase in the number of people of productive age.

"Well, this demographic bonus is only once in the history of a nation's civilization. And this demographic bonus is to determine whether our country, Indonesia, is able to escape the trap of an intermediate country," he concluded.