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Jainab (centre) flanked by Kamaruzaman (2nd from left), Bormer (left), Balakrishnan (2nd from right) and Asmady during the launch.
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29th July, 2010
KOTA KINABALU: Unemployment among Sabahan youths is still occurring despite the various efforts undertaken by Resource Development and Information Technology Ministry to address it.
Its assistant minister, Datuk Jainab Ahmad Ayid said at the launch of the Regional Conference entitled ‘Partnership Between Industry and Community’ at 1Borneo near here yesterday that they have organized courses to help the unemployed youths eventually find employment.
“However, we are still finding out that some of the youths who have taken up the courses remain unemployed,” she said.
She attributed that the youths unemployment were possibly due to their attitude towards work.
“I have received a lot of requests from youths wanting to work for the government. But there are a lot of opportunities available in various other venues. The hotel sector for example, plantation and factories,” she said.
She added that Sabah higher learning institutes such as Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) produces between 3,000 and 4,000 new graduates annually.
Many of these new graduates are eyeing to nab jobs at the public sector, she said.
She said that these graduates should become more innovative, creative, and diligent and ready to grab the opportunities that present themselves to them.
Also present at the event were UMS vice chancellor, Professor Datuk Dr Kamaruzaman Ampon, dean for the School of Social Sciences, Associate Professor Dr Asmady Idris, Organising chairman of the conference, Associate Professor Dr Balakrishnan Parasuraman and Professor Dr H. Bormer Pasaribu, chairman of the Indonesian Industrial Relations Association.
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