Didit Eko Setiawan , Jakarta According to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), the unemployment rate decreased in February 2008 compared to that in February 2007. How could that be possible? The reason is the number of unemployed absorbed by that tough and self-reliant sector - the informal sector. Facts show that annually, there are 70 percent of people working in the informal sector and only 30 percent people working in the formal sector. It seems unbelievable.

Even with the 10:1 ratio you stated I cannot see almost 1 million jobs being created within Indonesia

Originally Posted By: Dilli Shell only have 108,000 employee's worldwide! perhaps. but how many wholly- or partially-dependent contractors do they employ?

the indonesian investment coordinating board, BKPM, here represented by Lufti, is filled with failed lawyers who have never worked in the private sector and who cannot do the simplest of maths. nonetheless, the 930,000 he was referring to was possibly a "multiplier effect" figure. in manufacturing, for example, it is sometimes said that for every job created, 10 others are created in the service sector.

I think they made it up .. either that or they are estimating the number of knock on jobs it will create. I mean think of all the Bakso boys, Ojeks, bar girls etc etc that will be needed

The Hague (ANTARA News) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla said here on Sunday that Shell Royal Dutch oil company had expressed its readiness to move its oil processing operations to Indonesia. "In a meeting over dinner Shell has expressed its readiness for it," he said after visiting the port in Rotterdam. Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenender in a meeting with Kalla earlier said that Shell wished to take part in the tender for the exploitation of the Natuna D Alpha Block.

Rotterdam (ANTARA News) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla has called for a speedy completion of the development of Tanjungpriok port in Jakarta into an international export-import center and a national transit port. "Step up the realization of the project, and whenever possible finish the job in three years of the scheduled five years," he said after visiting the Rotterdam port in the Netherlands on Sunday. "Imagine the Rotterdam port is 40 kilometers in width, but it is clean and orderly," he said.