This paper examines the effectiveness of government attempts in Indonesia to deal with the employment dimensions of the economic reform programme introduced after the collapse in oil prices in the early 1980s. The paper comes to the conclusion that the reform programme has been in general...

Offers practical guidelines for strengthening linkages between short- term employment programmes and overall macro-economic planning.

Criticizes the standard international definition of unemployment as being too restrictive to measure accurately unemployment in labour- surplus economies. Using Indonesia as a basis, proposes a definition which is based on trends in real wages which aims to reflect the real extent of labour...