PERANAN HUMAN CAPITAL UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KINERJA DAERAH: STUDI KASUS DI PROVINSI JAWA TIMUR

The aim of this research is to examine the role of human capital to achieve performance
in global environment. The performance is measured by regional GDP. The proxies of
human capital are literacy rate, number of tertiary schools per capita, percentage of
primary teachers with required qualification, number of tertiary students per capita,
cumulative of tertiary graduates per capita, percentage of male grade and percentage
of female grade.
The research draws several results. Firstly, human capital positively correlated with
province's performance. Moreover, human capital significantly influences province's
performance. It means that qualified human capital will distinguish province's
performance. Secondly, literacy rate and percentage of primary teachers with required
qualification do not significantly influence regional GDP. In practice, literacy rate
does not give enough contribution to increase the quality of human resources. And
teachers in east java province do not qualify enough to increase the quality of human
capital. Thirdly, the variables of number of tertiary schools per capita, cumulative of
tertiary graduates per capita and percentage of female grade negatively significant
with regional GDP. It indicates that the number of schools, tertiary graduates and
percentage of female will absorb the regional GDP. It seems to be clear that building
and maintaining schools need more financing. However, tertiary graduates only add a
new unemployment. Most of female are domestication in east java province.
Domestication is not the factor to be accounted in regional GDP. Finally, the variables
of number of tertiary students per capita and percentage of male grade are significantly
correlated with regional gross domestic product.
Keywords: intellectual capital, human capital and regional gross domestic product