Creating employment

Creating employment
opportunities

From Suara Karya

As Indonesia struggles to emerge from economic crisis,
unemployment has reached alarming levels. On Jan. 28, 2002, as
many as 50 million Indonesians were unemployed.

As job opportunities become more difficult to find, the ASEAN
Free Trade Area will soon begin. This means that Indonesians must
compete with foreigners in the labor market. If we fail in this
competition, we will degenerate into a nation of servants.

The people need jobs, but we cannot expect the government to
do much about this as it is too busy with its own problems.

Let all healthy and able-bodied people aged 16 years and over
work together, regardless of sex, religion and ethnicity, to tap
the potential in the regions where they live and open up fresh
employment opportunities through their own initiative.

ANDI MASNIATTI
Bulukumba, South Sulawesi