Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Wednesday the private sector should help the government in dealing with the growing jobless figure by creating more jobs.

"The government can only provide less than 1 million jobs a year for new recruits in government agencies," he said when opening a seminar on employment issues at the State Palace here.

The private sector should lead the efforts to tackle the protracting unemployment problems because in fact the vast majority of employed citizens work for private companies, he said.

"It's not the government alone who holds responsibility for job creations."

According to the Central Statistics Agency, open unemployment in Indonesia hits 10.93 million or 10.28 percent of the labor force.

With more than half of the labor force being only elementary school graduates, most of Indonesians work in the informal sector.

Source: Xinhua