Unemployment rampant in Bogor

Unemployment rampant in Bogor

BOGOR (JP): Unemployment stood at a staggering 49,000 in 2000
in the Bogor mayoralty, despite ceaseless attempts to reduce it,
Mayor Iswara Natanegara said on Friday.

In his progress report delivered before the mayoralty
legislative council, Iswara said unemployment would be one of the
city's major obstacles in its development program in the coming
years.

During the year 2000, he said, the mayoralty administration
managed to place 6,491 people in workplaces through the people's
empowerment programs, such as the community economic empowerment
movement (Garda Emas), internal work program, temporary work
program, skill improvement training program and self-employment
program.

He partly blamed the political instability and economic
adversity for the high unemployment rate.

Rampant unemployment in the mayoralty is evident in the
growing number of street children and vendors, Iswara said.

He said the administration spent more than Rp 16 billion to
improve human resources in the last fiscal year. (21/01)