The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) has released preliminary results from the 2016 Economic Census (SE). The results show more than 70.3 million workers spread across 26.71 million businesses/companies, ranging from micro and small to medium and large scales. The distribution of the workforce is dominated by the wholesale and retail trade sector, employing 22.4 million people, or 31.81 percent of Indonesia's workforce.
This is followed by the manufacturing industry, employing 15.99 million people (22.75 percent), and the accommodation and food service sector, employing 8.41 million people (11.97 percent).
These preliminary results from the 2016 Economic Census will provide a more detailed and in-depth picture of the Indonesian economy. A second phase of the economic census is planned for September 2017 to collect data on capital structure, costs, and other information.
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