These are the Provinces with the Highest Unemployment Rates

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The highest open unemployment rate in February 2017 was in East Kalimantan province, at 8.55 percent. This means that 8.55 percent of the workforce in East Kalimantan was unemployed. This figure increased by 0.6 percent compared to August 2016. In second place was West Java, with unemployment at 8.49 percent, a decrease of 0.4 percent compared to August of the previous year.

The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) recorded 131.55 million people in the workforce, of whom 124.54 million were employed. The remaining 7.01 million people were unemployed. This is referred to as open unemployment (TPT), meaning those who are categorized as part of the workforce but do not have a job. Nationally, the open unemployment rate reached 5.33 percent, a decrease of 0.28 percent compared to August of the previous year.

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