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Sat, 09/06/2008 - 14:42
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MANPOWER MINISTER VISITING JAPAN
Tokyo, Sept. 6 (ANTARA) - Indonesian Manpower and Transmigration Minister Erman Suparno is on a two-day visit in Japan to discuss the need for better protection of Indonesian workers in the East Asian country and a possible increase in their salaries.
"I have conveyed the requests for better protection and salaries to JITCO (Japan International Traning Coopration)," Suparno said here on Saturday.
The minister said JITCO had responded to his requests positively and both parties agreed to set up a working group to follow it up.
In the meeting with JITCO on Friday (Sept. 5), Suparno also expressed his hopes to JITCO President Tashio Takano that Japan would treat over 44,000 Indonesian workers fairly and indiscriminately.
"Indonesia does not request high salaries but they must be adequate. The most important thing is that Indonesian workers are not treated as cheap labor," he said.
Indonesia also hoped that its migrant workers could enter other professional sectors, he said.
The manpower minister was scheduled to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Association for International Manpower Development of Medium and Small Enterprises (IMM) of Japan, on Saturday (Sept. 6).
The MoU would cover the issues of better protection and salaries for Indonesian workers.
About 200 Indonesian nurses and caregivers arrived in Japan last August as Japan gradually opens up to foreign workers to try to ward off future labor shortages.
The arrival of the foreign nurses in the country,which tightly controls immigration comes as the greying nation struggles to support a growing mass of pensioners, even as Japanese have fewer children.
The nurses are the first batch of full-time health workers accepted under a free trade pact between Japan and Indonesia that took effect on July 1. They will work full-time in hospitals and nursing-care facilities.
Japan will accept a maximum of 1,000 Indonesian caregivers and nurses over two years, with half of them arriving this year.
The country has so far received migrant workers from China (287,095), Indonesia (44,362), Vietnam (17,402), the Philippines (25,168), Thailand (16,777), Sri Lanka (1,579), India (950), Mongolia (905), Myanmar (332), Peru (96), and Laos (80).
"I have conveyed the requests for better protection and salaries to JITCO (Japan International Traning Coopration)," Suparno said here on Saturday.
The minister said JITCO had responded to his requests positively and both parties agreed to set up a working group to follow it up.
In the meeting with JITCO on Friday (Sept. 5), Suparno also expressed his hopes to JITCO President Tashio Takano that Japan would treat over 44,000 Indonesian workers fairly and indiscriminately.
"Indonesia does not request high salaries but they must be adequate. The most important thing is that Indonesian workers are not treated as cheap labor," he said.
Indonesia also hoped that its migrant workers could enter other professional sectors, he said.
The manpower minister was scheduled to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Association for International Manpower Development of Medium and Small Enterprises (IMM) of Japan, on Saturday (Sept. 6).
The MoU would cover the issues of better protection and salaries for Indonesian workers.
About 200 Indonesian nurses and caregivers arrived in Japan last August as Japan gradually opens up to foreign workers to try to ward off future labor shortages.
The arrival of the foreign nurses in the country,which tightly controls immigration comes as the greying nation struggles to support a growing mass of pensioners, even as Japanese have fewer children.
The nurses are the first batch of full-time health workers accepted under a free trade pact between Japan and Indonesia that took effect on July 1. They will work full-time in hospitals and nursing-care facilities.
Japan will accept a maximum of 1,000 Indonesian caregivers and nurses over two years, with half of them arriving this year.
The country has so far received migrant workers from China (287,095), Indonesia (44,362), Vietnam (17,402), the Philippines (25,168), Thailand (16,777), Sri Lanka (1,579), India (950), Mongolia (905), Myanmar (332), Peru (96), and Laos (80).
