According to data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), the unemployment rate in
Indonesia in 2020 is still high at 9.77 million people or around 6.26% of the total productive age or
labor force. When
it was
viewed from the level of education, it tur
n
ed
out that vocational high school
graduates occup
ied
the top position as a contributor to the unemployment rate in Indonesia,
it was
13.55%. This high number of unemployed because the competence possessed by Indonesian human
resources
was
still low or be
cause there
we
re not enough job opportunities to accommodate all graduates
of the workforce. To overcome this, the government through the Ministry of Education and Culture, the
Directorate of Vocational High School Education (SMK)
was
trying to find soluti
ons to overcome these
problems. This paper discuss
ed
a literature review about the teaching factory program in Vocational
High Schools as one of the programs suggested by the government to be implemented in
Vocational
High Schools
. Teaching factory
was
a l
earning activity where students directly carr
ied
out production
activities in the form of goods and services in the school education environment, with the aim of training
work competencies and having competencies for entrepreneurship. With the implementati
on of this
program, it
was expected
that
Vocational High School
graduates
were able to
create jobs and at the
same time open
ed
up job opportunities for others and thus the unemployment rate in Indonesia
could
be suppressed.