Kemampuan sektor formal dalam menyerap tenaga kerja di perkotaan sangat terbatas. Keadaan ini mendorong pemerintah melakukan program revitalisasi balai latihan kerja di seluruh Indonesia, dengan tujuan memberikan keterampilan kepada calon tenaga kerja agar dapat berusaha secara mandiri di sektor informal. Artinya di masa mendatang keberadaan sekolah kejuruan dan balai latihan kerja menjadi sangat strategis dalam mengentaskan pengangguran di perkotaan. Persepsi warga kota mengenai pengaruh promosi, lokasi, jenis pelatihan, dan nilai tambah terhadap minat mereka dalam memanfaatkan aset balai latihan kerja diteliti dengan menggunakan kuesioner yang disebar di enam kecamatan di wilayah Kotamadya Jakarta Utara.
Analisa tabulasi silang digunakan untuk mengetahui pengaruh antara promosi, lokasi, jenis pelatihan, dan nilai tambah terhadap minat. Analisa tersebut juga digunakan untuk mengetahui ada tidaknya perbedaan pandangan warga kota sebagai pengguna dan bukan pengguna balai latihan kerja mengenai promosi, lokasi, jenis pelatihan, dan nilai tambah terhadap minat mereka dalam memanfaatkan aset balai latihan kerja. Bagi pengguna balai latihan kerja, promosi, lokasi, jenis pelatihan dan nilai tambah tidak mempengaruhi minat mereka dalam memanfaatkan aset BLKD Jakarta Utara.
Selanjutnya bagi bukan pengguna balai latihan kerja, lokasi dan nilai tambah mempengaruhi terhadap minat mereka dalam memanfaatkan aset BLKD Jakarta Utara, sedangkan promosi dan jenis pelatihan tidak mempengaruhi minat mereka dalam memanfaatkan aset BLKD Jakarta Utara. Terdapat perbedaan pandangan antara warga kota sebagai pengguna dan bukan pengguna balai latihan kerja mengenai variabel promosi, lokasi, jenis pelatihan, dan nilai tambah terhadap minat mereka dalam memanfaatkan aset BLKD Jakarta Utara, pengaruh signifikan berasal dari lokasi dan nilai tambah.
Capacity of formal sector to employ workers in urban areas is very limited. This situation has encouraged the government to conduct a revitalization program of work training centers all over Indonesia, with purpose to provide skills to prospective workers in order to be able to work independently in informal sector. This means that, in the future, the existence of vocational schools and work training centers becomes very strategic in alleviating unemployment in urban areas. City residents? perception about the effect of promotion, location, type of training, and value added on their interest in utilizing assets of work training centers is examined using questionnaires distributed in six districts within the Municipality of North Jakarta.
Cross tabulation analysis is used to find out the effect of promotion, location, type of training, and value added on interest. The analysis is also used to find out the existence or non existence of different view of city residents as users and non users of work training centers with respect to the effect of promotion, location, type of training, and value added on their interest in utilizing the assets of work training centers. For users of work training centers, promotion, location, type of training and value added do not influence their interest in utilizing the assets of BLKD (Regional Work Training Centers) of North Jakarta.
Further, for non users of work training center, location and value added affect their interest in utilizing the assets BLKD of North Jakarta, while promotion and type of training do not influence their interest in utilizing the assets of BLKD of North Jakarta. There is a different point of view between city residents as users and non users of work training centers with respect to the effect variables of promotion, location, type of training, and value added on their interest in utilizing the assets of BLKD of North Jakarta; the significant effect is from location and value added.
