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Pemagangan Solusi Peningkatan Kompetensi Tenaga Kerja

Dalam kurun waktu tiga tahun terakhir, angka pengangguran mengalami koreksi kearah yang lebih baik, yaitu turun dari 5,81 persen pada tahun 2015 menjadi 5,33 persen pada tahun 2017. Sektor-sektor yang mengalami peningkatan penyerapan tenaga kerja terjadi pada Sektor Industri (0,93 poin), Sektor Perdagangan (0,74 poin), dan Sektor Jasa Kemasyarakatan (0,49 poin). Sementara sektor-sektor yang mengalami penurunan adalah Sektor Pertanian (2,21 poin), Sektor Pertambangan (0,10 poin), dan Sektor Konstruksi (0,01 poin). Meskipun pengangguran mengalami tren penurunan, secara absolut angka 5,33 persen masih tergolong cukup besar bila dikalikan dengan jumlah angkatan kerja yang mencapai 189 juta jiwa, yaitu sekitar 10 juta jiwa. Beberapa faktor yang ditenggarai berkontribusi terhadap lambannya penyerapan tenaga kerja antara lain karena terjadinya perlambatan ekonomi terutama terjadi disektor pertambangan yang dalam kurun waktu tiga tahun terakhir secara tajam mengalami penurunan harga d

Improving the Capacity of Village Government is a Must

Following the implementation of Law 6/2014 on Village, there has been remarkable changes in the village authority and revenue. The new law has given more power to village governments and has introduced a new arrangement in the village revenue. Since the law effectively implemented in 2015, in the case of village financial, there has been about 127 trillion of National budget transferred to villages. This amount is intended to increase gradually, so that, by 2019, the central government will allocate around 120 trillion, the amount will be doubled compared to the allocation in 2017. With this amount, each village in Indonesia received around 800 million, and it means in 2018 each village will be anticipated to manage around 1.6 billion. The abundant revenue received by villages may be end up in two situations. It potentially facilitates the acceleration of village development or it may create a new problem in villages. The first situation possibly to happen if village apparatus has