Abstract: This paper examines the various challenges of vocational education in Indonesia in the era of the Industrial revolution. The result of this research is that the challenges of vocational education in Indonesia consist of internal and external factors. Internal factors include government policy factors for vocational education, link and match factors between the academic world and the business world and industry, human resource factors, life skills factors possessed. External factors can be indicated by the increasingly rapid development of the industry which causes a higher level of adaptation difficulty. The conclusion of this paper is that vocational education is experiencing increasingly severe challenges so that it requires commitment and cooperation as well as a level of resources that is able to answer every challenge of life in the future.