BPS data for 2019 shows Papua’s open unemployment rate averaged 3.45% across 90 areas; Mimika recorded the highest female jobless rate at 16.86%, whil

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Papua’s open unemployment landscape in 2019 was split between a cluster of regencies reporting sharply elevated female jobless rates and a much larger group where the figure hovered near—or at—zero.

BPS data covering 90 gender-specific measurements across the province’s regencies and city shows Mimika sitting at the top with 16.86 percent for women, more than ten times the provincial average of 3.45 percent .

Mimika and Jayapura dominate the female unemployment figures Mimika’s female open unemployment rate of 16.86 percent is the highest in the dataset, followed closely by Jayapura regency at 15.

68 percent and Jayapura City at 14.89 percent. In contrast, the male rates in these same areas were markedly lower: Mimika’s male unemployment stood at 4.73 percent, Jayapura regency at 6.

3 percent, and Jayapura City at 11.03 percent.

This gender gap — with women facing roughly three to four times the jobless rate of men in the province’s most urbanised and resource-rich pockets — suggests that economic activity in mining and government service centres has not absorbed female jobseekers at the same pace.

The 3.45 percent provincial average obscures the wide dispersion. Only a handful of areas pull the average upward, while most regencies cluster well below two percent. Jayapura’s combined unemployment rate of 9.

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