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Indonesia behind the learning curve By Bill Guerin JAKARTA - Indonesia is arguably Asia's least well-educated country, and the government is largely to blame. With 30% of its 242 million population school-aged, the world's largest Muslim country ranks lowest among its Asian neighbors in terms of public education expenditure. A minuscule 0.03% of the Indonesian workforce has earned a university degree, according to government statistics. Only 39% of 12-to-15-year-olds ever make it to secondary school. Addressing a major world conference this month on training and development in Kuala Lumpur, Telkom Indonesia chairman Tanri Abeng lamented that more than 80% of Indonesians have only a primary-school education. With a record 40 million people unemployed, the education system's failure means that Indonesia's pool of unskilled and increasingly unemployable labor is growing exponentially. That's bad economic and social news for a country that nearly a decade after the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis is still straining to recover from the economic adversity and displacement. Indonesia has in recent years witnessed a worrying process of de-industrialization, with massive foreign divestment in many of the export-oriented industries that drove the country's spectacular economic growth throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s. In 2003, foreign investors pulled US$597 million out of the country, according to a recent report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Source: Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news - Indonesia behind the learning curve

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