Because Of The Demands Of The Times, Jokowi: Many Types Of Old Jobs Will Be Lost

President Joko Widodo (Photo: Cabinet Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said that innovation, speed and creativity are needed in the midst of rapid changes taking place in the world. He even said that there would be drastic changes in the labor market.

"The labor market has undergone a very drastic change, many types of old jobs have been lost and are no longer needed," said Jokowi during an online briefing at the Academic Senate Senate Session of the 45th Anniversary of Sebelas Maret University (UNS) online, Friday, March 12. .

Furthermore, this change must be followed by changes in the study program, curriculum, and changes in the character of the lecturers. This is because the industrial revolution 4.0 is considered to have made a lot of old science and technology obsolete.

So, all parties may not move casually. "New ways must be developed," he stressed.

Not only that, he also assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic has also taught all parties to start living a new way of life. Including, implementing digitization which was previously difficult to do in all institutions.

"The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us to break through old ways, which were once considered taboo, are now a new way of life. Digitalization, which was difficult to introduce, now all institutions have to do it," he said.

"Performance measures must also be changed, budgeting methods must be changed, new work programs must be introduced," he concluded.