Closing the Gap between Workforce Development and Labor Markets : An Assessment of Indonesia’s Workforce Development System Based on the SABER Tool
Indonesia has been an independent nation for only 70 years, yet it has already reached middle-income status and aims to reach high-income status by 2045. While high levels of economic growth have facilitated impressive development, key gaps have em...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/722221617171323915/Closing-the-Gap-between-Workforce-Development-and-Labor-Markets-An-Assessment-of-Indonesia-s-Workforce-Development-System-Based-on-the-SABER-Tool http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35379 |
| Summary: | Indonesia has been an independent nation
for only 70 years, yet it has already reached middle-income
status and aims to reach high-income status by 2045. While
high levels of economic growth have facilitated impressive
development, key gaps have emerged in human capital. To
address these gaps, the government is shifting its efforts
toward developing and harnessing the level of human capital
and skills Indonesians will need to become more competitive
in a fast-changing world. To help the GoI tackle its current
skills challenges, the World Bank carried out a
comprehensive diagnostic of the country’s
workforce-development system. The GoI is currently preparing
a technical and vocational education and training (TVET)
long-term strategy and, through BAPPENAS, had requested that
the World Bank carry out an assessment of the current state
of the Indonesian system to inform this strategy. The
diagnostic uses the System Assessment for Better Education
Results (SABER) tool developed by the World Bank, which
focuses on the areas of governance, financing, information,
quality assurance, access, and relevance to business.
Implemented in more than 30 countries, the SABER-Workforce
Development (SABER-WfD) gauge brings international standards
to inform Indonesia’s current practices and catalyze policy
discussions on how to improve its WfD system. The results
summarized below provide a baseline for understanding the
current status of the WfD system in Indonesia, as well as a
basis for discussing how best to strengthen it for the
coming years. The assessment covers the state of the
Indonesian system up to September 2019, and it highlights
the recent reforms that may indicate developments. Because
data collection was carried out in 2019, any developments
post-COVID-19 are not included in the assessment. |
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