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Judul Pandemic has bumped up Indonesia's unemployment rate: minister
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The unemployment rate has risen significantly in Indonesia due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
Manpower Minister Ida Fauziah said. According to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), the
number of unemployed people increased by 1.84 percent to 9.7 million, with the open
unemployment rate reaching 7 percent, in August, 2020 compared to a year earlier, she said
while opening competency-based training for the budget year 2021 at the Surakarta job training
center on Wednesday.
PANDEMIC HAS BUMPED UP INDONESIA'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: MINISTER
In the previous five years, we managed to keep down the unemployment rate to 4.99 percent
in February, 2020.
Solo, C Java - The unemployment rate has risen significantly in Indonesia due to the COVID-19
pandemic, Manpower Minister Ida Fauziah said.
According to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), the number of unemployed people increased
by 1.84 percent to 9.7 million, with the open unemployment rate reaching 7 percent, in August,
2020 compared to a year earlier, she said while opening competency-based training for the
budget year 2021 at the Surakarta job training center on Wednesday.
"In the previous five years, we managed to keep down the unemployment rate to 4.99 percent
in February, 2020," she remarked.
In August, 2020, the number of unemployed people just in Central Java had reached 1.21 million,
an increase of 396 thousand compared to the previous year, she said quoting BPS data.
"The unemployment rate rose significantly by 2.04 percent compared to the previous year.
Around 3.97 million working-age people in Central Java are believed to have been affected by
the pandemic," she added.
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