Human resources in the economy (mea)
Daily
newspaper Kompas on 25 November 2015 the news spread that the Institute
of Management Development (IMD) which is the leading business schools
in Switzerland to report the results of the research entitled IMD World
Talent Report 2015. The study was based on surveys that produce talented
and skilled labor ranked in the world in in 2015. the purpose of
holding the ranking by IMD is to assess the extent to which the country
attractive and able to retain talented and skilled labor available in
the country to participate in the economy of a country. This report was
special because Indonesia is included in one of the 61 countries in the
world in the survey. However, it stated that Indonesia's ranking dropped
from rank 16 to rank 25 in 2014 to rank 41 in 2015. The position of
Indonesia is far below the position of neighboring countries such as
Singapore, Malaysia, and even Thailand. Indonesia's position is also
only slightly better than the Philippines. This ranking is calculated by
a certain weight by considering three factors: factors of development
and investment, attractiveness factors of a country, and the readiness
factors of human resources. Each factor is divided into a number of
other details.
Indonesian first two factors
have relatively equal rank with the previous year. However, for the
third factor is the readiness of human resources is the most dominant
figure accounts for skilled labor downgrade Indonesia in 2015. In 2014,
Indonesia is still ranked 19th for this factor. In 2015, Indonesia
ranked workforce readiness ranking plunged into the workforce readiness
factor 42. Indonesia is still considered less competitive than other
countries in 2015. To these factors, Indonesia only excels in the growth
of the labor force only where Indonesia ranked fifth. Other indicators
such as international experience, competence of senior managers, the
education system, managerial education, and language skills are ranked
in the top 30. Even for the financial skills, Indonesia was ranked 44th.
The impact to Indonesia
The
results of another survey of the World Bank entitled Ease of Doing
Business 2016, released a few months ago a little contradictory. In its
report, the ease of doing business in Indonesia increased eleven
previous ranking from rank 120 to rank 109th of 189 countries surveyed
by the World Bank. Ease business in Indonesia will encourage businessmen
from home and abroad to start a business or business expansion
possibilities were in Indonesia. On the other hand, if it is linked to
the IMD World Talent Report 2015, the author holds that it is a signal
that the talented and skilled Indonesian workers are less able to
compete well with the citizens of other ASEAN countries, especially
Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. Do not let the ease of business that
has been championed by the government of Indonesia was more exploited
other countries in doing business in Indonesia by bringing skilled
workers from his country while citizens of Indonesia can not compete
with other foreign nationals.
Surveys on the
positive side of Indonesia also expressed by the Legatum Institute The
Legatum Prosperity Index in 2015. The survey tells the story of human
progress not just from an economic standpoint. In order for a country to
grow properly, a state has to provide the opportunity and freedom to
its citizens. The survey also shows how access to quality health and
education so that the country can grow into more advanced countries. The
survey also proved that effective and transparent governance will be
able to empower citizens to spend his best. It is worth highlighting in
the Prosperity Index 2015 is that Indonesia stands out as the country
with the best overall performance. This is reflected that within the
last seven years since 2009, Indonesia increased by 21 rank from rank 85
to rank 64th.
Regardless of the results of a
variety of surveys with different details in it, authors and researchers
in the field of Financial System Monitoring Center for Financial Policy
Fiscal Policy Agency of the view that Indonesia should not feel
discouraged or too proud of themselves with the survey results.
Indonesia should re-focus on improvements in the country. There is still
so much space that can be extracted to be repaired. There are still so
many homework for Indonesia in the catch. However, it is not impossible
if all parties earnestly working on it, especially in the field of
improvement of human resources, so that the ideals of Indonesia stated
in the preamble of the 1945 Constitution, one of which is to realize
Indonesian society justice and prosperity will be achieved , Another
thing that is not less important is the coordination among the parties
involved. Coordination is a simple word, but are expensive and difficult
to be done in this beloved country.
