25% population in Yogya jobless

YOGYAKARTA: Twenty-one percent out of a total of 2.5 million people in Yogyakarta are effectively unemployed, the province's Manpower and Transmigration Office says.

Office head Diat Minatu said 100,000 out of the 600,000 people had no sources of income at all, while the remaining 500,000 survived by doing odd jobs for parents or relatives.

A job expo would be held in the near future in Yogyakarta to help the unemployed find jobs, Diat said. -- JP