Economics
Yawning Skills Gap Threatens Indonesia’s Path to Prosperity
- Only 17 percent of people working have finished high school
- President faces a tough election battle as voters seek jobs
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As Indonesia’s Joko Widodo bids for a second term, a skills shortage that’s leaving tens of millions locked out of higher-paid jobs is weighing on his quest to develop the economy.
It’s a stark challenge, according to the nation’s investment board chief Tom Lembong, who illustrated its scale by describing a conversation with the local partner to a Chinese company backing a $5 billion industrial park in Central Sulawesi.