Abstract
The present study is based on the issue of the competitiveness of vocational education graduates. This condition is likely due to the irrelevance between the content or the competencies developed and the superiority of the regions (Regency/Municipality). Therefore, the first step to improve the competitiveness of the graduates is evaluating the accordance of their competencies developed by the vocational education in every region of the regency or municipality. This study used a policy evaluation method formulated in the form of Service Quality (ServQual) by taking all vocational schools in 6 (six) sample districts/cities. The research instruments used are in-depth interview and document studies. The data were then analyzed using Location Quotient (LQ), growth ratio, and Overlay (Ovr) analysis. It indicates that the content of vocational education reflected in the competence of skills developed was not relevant to the issues or potential of each district/city. This condition causes the low competitiveness of vocational education graduates, both in entrepreneurship and competitiveness in the national and international labor market.
Highlights
1.1 Background of StudyThe main issue of this study is concerned with the competitiveness of vocational education graduates in Indonesia
If its parameter is only based on the link and match to industry or labor market, it can be predicted that there will be a great number of unemployed vocational education graduates, and at the same time, the skills offered by the vocational education are homogeneous and not suitable with the regional issue or the priority base sectors (Sukardi & Wardana, 2016)
Unreached competitive advantage of vocational education has an impact to the competitiveness of the graduates
Summary
It indicates that in the labor market, most graduates tend to seek instead of creating job vacancies (Sukardi & Wardana, 2016). The Central Bureau of Statistics of Indonesia (2017) noted a total of 1,621,402 unemployed vocational graduates (23%) This condition is understandable because the goal of the vocational education is to prepare the graduates be ready to enter labor market. If its parameter is only based on the link and match to industry or labor market, it can be predicted that there will be a great number of unemployed vocational education graduates, and at the same time, the skills offered by the vocational education are homogeneous and not suitable with the regional issue or the priority base sectors (Sukardi & Wardana, 2016)
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