Well-educated but unemployed

MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: About 6,000 university graduates are unemployed, according to the local manpower office.

Moch. Chodjin said the local job market could absorb only seven percent of college graduates every year.

Many educated job seekers were not interested in a profession but wanted to become civil servants, he said. Few have entrepreneurial spirits.

He proposed universities include entrepreneurship in their curriculum, Antara reported. (03)