The Effect of Industrial Work Practice to Work Readiness of Vocational High School (VHS) at Indonesia

ABSTRACT: From August 2016 to August 2017, there are as many as 7.4 million unemployed, due to the difference between the quality of power needed by the industry and the ability of applicants. Paying attention to these data, a number of questions can be asked: (1) why does the phenomenon of Vocational Schools mentioned above occur?; (2) Are the eight national education standards not implemented; and (3) how far is the influence of industrial work practices on the work readiness of vocational students? From a number of these questions, which will be examined and discussed in this article is the question no. 3, namely how far is the influence of industrial work practices on the work readiness of vocational students? This research was conducted by using a literature study method on related references, and a number of reports and research journals on “the influence of industrial work practices on vocational students’ work readiness”, followed by FGD. The study found that: (1) industrial work practices (apprenticeship) are a tangible manifestation of the implementation of dual system education in order to obtain “link and match” in learning programs in vocational education; (2) the implementation of internship has a positive influence on work readiness (in addition to other factors such as career expectations and work motivation); (3) internship activities can provide student experience and technical skills needed as their provision to enter the workforce; (4) The internship program needs to be arranged jointly between the school and the industrial world in order to increase the intensity of the implementation of internship and meet the needs of vocational students.
KEYWORDS: Vocational, infrastructure, dual system education; industrial work practices, and work readines