JOBS Creation was one beautiful promise Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made when he was still a presidential candidate. During the campaign, SBY expressed his wish to reduce the unemployment and poverty which have increased sharply in the last four years.

The long-term unemployed, for instance, now number over 10 million—and are largely the educated—while the poverty level is above 17 percent. To deal with this, Yudhoyono’s governmen