Govt: 23 Million Jobs at Risk Due to Industrial Automation
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26 November 2019 22:03 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian Manpower Minister Ida Fauziah said that 23 million jobs would be at risk due to the industrial automation brought by the industry 4.0, which will see human jobs replaced or evolve to other lines of work.
This presents a direct challenge that the Ministry must face, she said. “More than twice of the population of Singapore will be affected,” said Ida after a meeting at the Semarang job training development center on Tuesday, November 26.
Based on the records of the Workers Social Security Agency (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan) from 2016 to 2018, she said the revolution of automation has instigated several lay-offs with an average of 240,000 workers during the aforementioned time period.
The Minister said a large number of layoffs is due to the fact that Indonesian workers are dominated by junior-high-school graduates and lower, with 57.54 percent. Out of this number, more than half work in the informal sector of the country’s industry.
However, the automation industry will also bring a new line of jobs up to 27-46 million by 2030. She predicted that 10 million of them are jobs that never existed before.
“Like it or not, we must implement upskilling or reskilling. If not, there would be more jobless people,” said Manpower Minister Ida Fauziah.
JAMAL A. NASHR
