This study has three main objectives namely (1) examine the existence of the persistence of unemployment in Indonesia (2) examine the factors that cause the persistance of unemployment in Indonesia and in some sample areas and (3) formulate strategies and policy measures needed to reduce the level of unmeployment. To archieve these objectives the activities we do is an empirical analysis through the modeling of Econometrics unemployment accounting and descriptive statistic. Meanwhile the data used are secondary data and regional macroeconomic and primary data collected through interviews with workers the unemployed firms bureaucrats and unions. The study concludes that the persistence of unemployment in Indonesia is disequilibrium persistent unmeployment withot self correcting mecanishm which means that the persistence occurred outside the labor market equilibrium and has no automatic mechanism to get to the point of equilibrium. In addition persistence is the result of the slow process of the capital accumulation wage rigidity the length of job search and the inertia caused by institutional factors of labor market. The main implication of this study are (1) the need to improve the quality of growth through hands-on strategy (2) banking policy and capital markets can lead to acceleration of capital accumulation (3) monetary policy is more focused on inflation targenting (4) increased total factor produktivity (5) spacial incentives for labor-intensive sektors (6) stengthening vocational education and(7) antiunemployment programens thet are regionally specific.