Interview with Mr Dwi Suryanto,
Author of Transformational Leadership Book, Leadership Expert. Trainer. Business & Motivational Speaker.
1. What do you think about the high rate of unemployee in Indonesia?
First, it's because of the low rate of study and low rate of skill to survive in the 'real word'. For example, the informatics graduates need the certification. People who want to work in a company witchout the certification will hard to be accept by the company.
Second, people sheldom to increase their ability every day. So use your time to increase your ability.
Third, the growth of company is small, the govornment and enterpreneur should growth the company so, will there many job vacancy.
But the main course is in the first and second statement because the skill and knowledge which is right with the company vacancy. Because in the fact, the job vacancy is many but that can't be fill by the person who does'nt have skill and right knowledge.
2. According to your opinion, what is the main course must be change to decrease the rate of unemployee?
First, government must prepare the curiculum and programs of education which is focuses on skills, not on general sciences. The sciences are only concepts actually no application in the world of work.
Second, from the parents, parents should guide their children to have the ability which is needed in the world of work.
Third, from the person side, the person must improve their ability so their ability increasing every day and needed by the company.
3. This time, many people start their own business. Is this affect the rate of unemployee in Indonesia?
This time is gold times for us because the internet. With internet, we can start make a business by taking benefit from internet. Many american's bilyunner start his business by taking benefit from internet such as google.
4. According to yout opinion, it's better to work or make a business and have employee who work for us?
Better is to employ people, because when working on others, rules and salary determine by the person who employs us. But if we make a business and have employee, we set it all, we can determine the salary according to the situation of our company. And we can take the profit higher.
5. To decrease the rate of unemployee in Indonesia. Should us do the technique from other country?
Yes we need, because many lessons that we can adopt. Because we can more quickly advance if taking an idea from another country and we have to improve that idea.
6. According to your opinion, what can we do as the student to help decrease the rate of unemployee in Indonesia?
Perhaps students can not help directly, but by preparing sisiwa-students to learn the business. Began observing in the neighborhood, efforts are successful and that who bankrupt.We can observe, for example there are food stalls that used to exist now did not exist, and there is a small food stalls that used to be great now. From there we can observe there must be the excellce so it can be succes.
Then began to read the articles about how to earn money themselves and there is definitely a business idea. Because According to experts, our main capital is imagination. So not only financial capital but also the capital of the imagination. Because Facebook is imagination, google is imagination, etc.
