Underprivileged millennials Being young and poor in Jakarta

The text describe about the condition of underprivileged millennial nowadays who life in modern era. In general, the typical media conception of the Indonesian millennial is not that different from its global counterpart – that of an upper-middle class, highly-educated, latte-sipping, GoFood-ordering urban youth, probably employed in the technology or creative sector. In Indonesia there are many millennial percentage, 20% no education, 18.04% Incomplete, 36.59% Primary, 9.38% Lower Secondary and 5.60% Upper secondary. From that percentage we can know that Indonesian millennial nowadays not have enough higher education. In November, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo unveiled his crack new team of young expert staffers, who seem to embody the millennial image, with entrepreneurs aplenty, not to mention a couple of Ivy League graduates in the mix.

Many millennial in Indonesia not have the same higher education, however in this era we have to struggle with the condition to maintain the economy. Not all of millennial have the same chance, some of them are did not complete their education and not have enough money for it. however, some of them have higher education and can be a success person in this world. In my opinion, we have to get entrepreneurship lessons to learn it and they can have their own business.

Entrepreneurship has been touted as another solution to the changing economic landscape, with the President preparing an omnibus law to empower small-and-medium businesses like the ones Adit and Riska dream of one day starting.

But Ariane pointed out that, until very recently, most of Indonesia's workforce had been self-employed, particularly in the informal sector.

“The evidence is not very clear whether policy campaigns to promote entrepreneurship can be effective in generating millions of meaningful, stable and upward-mobility enabling jobs," she said.

While the problem is a global one, the challenge in Indonesia is exacerbated by the sheer number of young people entering the labor market, many with skill sets that do not match industry.

In the end, she said the current situation was unprecedented and that “nobody really knows how to tackle the changing nature of work."

"One thing the government should do is to broaden the social safety net to help young people cope with their precarious position," she said.

source : https://www.thejakartapost.com/longform/2020/01/22/underprivileged-millennials-being-young-and-poor-in-jakarta.html


Dewi Ernawati