<![CDATA[The mismatch between the background of education and employment obtained greatly affects the future of the individual and the existence of the industry in which the individual works. In Indonesia until now, there are still many reports mentioning the number of educated unemployed or less relevant competence of vocational education graduates with the needs of the industrial world in Indonesia. Link and match is one of the efforts that can be done to prevent mismatch between the supply provided by educational institutions and the demand needed by the industrial world. This paper aims to analyze the implementation of public policies related to vocational education. The concept of link and match itself has been proposed since the late 80s. The success of this concept is characterized by the occurrence of harmonious coordination between the Industry and Educational Institutions (SMK / Polytechnic) in all related learning components. The Industry must participate in formulating curriculum, learning models, work culture, quality assurance, to graduate uptake. The author uses qualitative methods by collecting data from various libraries, reading, recording and processing from various library sources related to vocational education problems in Indonesia. From the results of the analysis it can be concluded that vocational education in Indonesia is still not able to meet expectations so there still needs to be structural and systematic improvements to overcome the problem.. This synergy is needed so that skilled human resources created later are able to get jobs that are in accordance with their competence. The latest efforts that have been tried to realize the concept of link and match are through the SMK center of excellence program in 2020]]>
