The Government of Indonesia is determined to develop an advanced labor market information system (LMIS) to provide reliable and timely information for developing the workforce to meet its current and future labor demand. Advanced online labor market information platforms deliver reliable, timely, comprehensive, and meaningful information to a wide audience. They usually include detailed
information on the demand for skills, occupational employment and prospects, wage trends, regional labor markets, and more. World Bank (2020b) assesses Indonesia’s LMIS as being basic to intermediate, describes the key functions of an advanced LMIS, and presents a vision for Indonesia’s system. World Bank (forthcoming (c)) describes the key data sources and features of workforce data and how to disseminate through those platforms to diverse audiences. Indonesia’s Occupational Tasks and Skills—or Indotask for short—is a timely effort to fill in the data needs for workforce development policy and monitoring. It is one of four current initiatives supported by the World Bank to build a comprehensive toolbox with relevant and timely data for workforce development (Box 1.1). The Indotask pilot is the first attempt at adjusting select modules of the U.S. Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a globally recognized occupational database, building on the sampling frame of Indonesia’s Occupational Employment Outlook (IOEO) 2020 as further described in section 2.