Become Educated Entrepreneurs
The pattern of higher education in Indonesia has been frequently criticized for being too concentrated on the creation of graduate job seeker, not a graduate job creator. This is one disadvantage that is often highlighted the higher education system in Indonesia because the very small contribution in developing entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship).
The system is now happening at this time, will only increase the number of educated unemployment. On the other hand, the number of entrepreneurs (entrepreneurs) educated very slow growth. As an illustration, the current ratio of the number of entrepreneurs compared with the population in Indonesia is still very low. According to records Ciputra, a property entrepreneur now voicing serious entrepreneurship, the number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia less than 2% of the total population (2007), or less than 500,000 people. In fact, ideally to be able to contribute significantly to national economic resilience, the ratio of the number of entrepreneurs than the total population in Indonesia at least 2%. And that’s actually still far from neighboring countries like Singapore which has a ratio of 7.2% Entrepreneurs (2005) or the United States which reached 11.5% (2007).
Several universities in Indonesia are now open majors and courses that simply focus on instilling an entrepreneurial spirit to students. However, extra effort was expected to come from the government to shift the higher education system towards a more enabling the creation of graduate job seekers.
According to the rector of the Open University Belawati Tian, “the government should not focus on the number of GER (gross enrollment ratios) of society to higher education. The reason is, it could cause an explosion boomerang for the emergence of unemployment.
Another thing to consider, the government should focus first on improving the quality of existing colleges for graduates to compete in the world of work and create jobs, “said Tian