Indonesia Wants Employment Breakthroughs from G20

TheIndonesia.id - Indonesian Minister of Manpower hoped the country’s G20 presidency will create breakthroughs that can contribute to the development of a more inclusive national and global employment.

Minister Ida Fauziyah said Indonesia must make the best use of the forum as challenges in employment prevail.

“Indonesia must create massive breakthroughs in the G20 forums, especially in facing the current and future challenges in global employment,” Fauziyah said on Thursday, December 9.

During its presidency, Indonesia will push for a collective effort to ensure the sector can recover from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Minister also addressed the impacts of digitalization that has been affecting employment, even before the pandemic hit.

“Indonesia’s G20 presidency will encourage a collective effort to improve world’s employment situation to recover from a double disruption that is a shift triggered by digitalization and automation, which is accelerated by the pandemic,” she added.

As mandated by President Joko Widodo, the government intended for the G20 presidency to not end up being merely ceremonial, but it will be used to push for concrete actions from state members and to represent developing countries.

In employment sector, Indonesia will focus on four issues: creating sustainable jobs, creating inclusive job market as well as job opportunities for people with disabilities, improving human resource capacity for sustainable productivity growth, and lastly, creating adaptive and inclusive workforce protection amid the changing condition.

Besides focuses on employment, the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto previously stated that Indonesia’s G20 presidency will focus on three strategic issues: inclusive health management, digital technology-based economic transformation, and sustainable energy transition.