Indonesia Health Profile 2010

GRAPH 2.8PERCENTAGE OF UNEMPLOYMENT LEVEL BY EDUCATIONIN INDONESIA, 2010Source: BPS-Statistics Indonesia, 2011Economic development is expected to encourage progress, physically, socially,mentally and spiritually in all over the country, especially in areas where areclassified as underdeveloped areas. An area is considered to be underdevelopedregion due to several factors, namely: geography, natural resources, humanresources, infrastructure and facilities, disaster‐prone areas and social conflict, anddevelopment policies. Limitations of infrastructure on various areas including publichealth makes people in underdeveloped areas find it difficult to run economic andsocial activity.The smallest unit used in the disadvantaged areas of the National Strategy toAccelerate Development of Disadvantaged Regions (National Strategy of PPDT) is thearea of the district administration. By definition, disadvantaged areas are districtsthat are relatively less developed than other areas in the national scale and apopulation of relatively backward. Determination of criteria developed areas is doneby using an approach based on the calculation of the six basic criteria, namely:economy, society, human resources, infrastructure, the ability of local finance (fiscalgap), accessibility and regional characteristics, as well as by district located in thehinterland, islands (small islands and island groups), the borders between countries,disaster‐prone areas and areas prone to conflict and large parts of coastal areas.18