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50842
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SOUTH SULAWESI TO SEND 2,500 WORKERS TO MIDDLE EAST
Makassar, March 16 (ANTARA) - South Sulawesi this year will send around 2,500 workers to some countries in the Middle East, Europe, the US, Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Malaysia.
This year's dispatch of workers had increased by 20 percent compared to that of last year with only 2,000 workers, the head of the manpower and transmigration representative office of South Sulawesi, Saggaf Saleh said here on Monday.
"In the near future, at least 500 workers will be flown to the Middle East besides the United States, most of whom are nurses," he said.
The workers who have been provided with vocational skills in the sector of industry, plantations, nursing and language in addition to identifying the culture of the destination country which was carried out in cooperation with the workers placement and dispatch agency in Jakarta.
This agency, he added, was seeking for job opportunities in those countries, thus arranging their placement to those destination countries and then informed South Sulawesi manpower and transmigration representative office to make use of the available job opportunities this year.
"What is more encouraging is that the United States also wants 1,000 graduates of the nursing accademy from South Sulawesi for employment at some hospitals there," he said adding that his side was currently making an approach to the private nursing institution to meet the demand from other countries.
This year's dispatch of workers had increased by 20 percent compared to that of last year with only 2,000 workers, the head of the manpower and transmigration representative office of South Sulawesi, Saggaf Saleh said here on Monday.
"In the near future, at least 500 workers will be flown to the Middle East besides the United States, most of whom are nurses," he said.
The workers who have been provided with vocational skills in the sector of industry, plantations, nursing and language in addition to identifying the culture of the destination country which was carried out in cooperation with the workers placement and dispatch agency in Jakarta.
This agency, he added, was seeking for job opportunities in those countries, thus arranging their placement to those destination countries and then informed South Sulawesi manpower and transmigration representative office to make use of the available job opportunities this year.
"What is more encouraging is that the United States also wants 1,000 graduates of the nursing accademy from South Sulawesi for employment at some hospitals there," he said adding that his side was currently making an approach to the private nursing institution to meet the demand from other countries.
