Jakarta – Thirty percent of university graduates are unemployed, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar says.

Many of them are jobless because they are not well informed about available vacancies or they are not qualified for the positions, he said after opening a career and scholarship expo at the University of Indonesia in Depok on Thursday, kompas.com reported.

To cope with the problem, universities should produce qualified graduates and provide them with career planning, he said.

He called for universities to build better cooperation with industries so there would be more jobs for graduates, including those who were handicapped.

The expo involved 68 companies and 14 scholarship providers, and will last until Saturday.