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To support government's initiative to improve its national social protection system, the Ministry of manpower in collaboration with the International labour organization (ILO) is conducting a joint National Conference titled "International Experiences of Protection against Unemployment and its Relevance for Indonesia on 3/3 in Jakarta. 

This National Conference aims to provide technical advice and further assistance on the development of unemployment insurance in the country by presenting exoerts on unemployment benefits from five Asian countries. 

These experts from Japan, South Korea, Mlaysia, thailand and Vietnam share good practices of unemployment benefit implementation in their countries as references for Indonesia in desifning its own unemployment benefit scheme.

As of today, the Indonesian government has only been operated three types of benefits: employment injury benefit, survivors benefit and old-age benefit under BPJS Employment. The government is now in the process of improving the quality of social protection in the country by adding the unemplyment benefit (JKP) into the system.

Today, workes and businesses are surrounded by diverse challenges and risks. A rise of digital economy and industrial, in one side, can potentially eliminate conventional jobs and lead to labour efficiency. In the other side, the rapid advancement of digital technology opens so many new creative and innovative job opportunities such as digital fin - tech, start-up, you tuber, selebgram, etc. 

The support of the ILO is part of its commitment to encourage its member stateds to improve their national social protection systems and ensure that no one is left behind. the unemployment benefit is part of the minimum standard of social protection according to the ILO convention No. 102 on Social Security. This Convention covers nine branches of social protection including medical care, sickness benefit, unemplyment benefit, old-age benefit, employment injury benefit, family benefit, maternity benefit and survivors benefit. 

"The ILO strongly supports the initiative taken by the Indonsian government to set up a new system to protect the unemployed. We believe that experiences from other countries can asisst key indonesian labour actors to discuss an ideal policy design and mechanism for Indonesia that can better protect the unemployed" said Kazutoshi Chatani, Deputy Country of ILO Office for Indonesia and Timor Leste.