Heavy Burden of the ‘Sandwich Generation’

A portrait of the Indonesian sandwich generation was captured in a survey conducted by Kompas Research & Development on 9-11 Aug. 2022 involving 504 respondents in 34 provinces.

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Job seekers scan the barcode of the job service link at the job fair held at the MNC Festival Job Fair, Jakarta, on Sunday (11/3/2019).

As many as 56 million productive age Indonesians are part of the "sandwich generation": They must support their children as well as their parents.