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Tue, 09/15/2009 - 08:28
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INDONESIA TO COMPETE IN FORMAL WORKFORCE MARKET ABROAD
Surabaya, Sept 14 (ANTARA) - Indonesia will make efforts to compete for formal workforce markets abroad, the head of the National Agency for Workers' Placement and Protection (BNP2TKI), Jumhur Hidayat, said here on Monday.
"We must not fall behind the Philippines and Vietnam," he said at a fast breaking gathering with dozens of formal workers who were leaving for Malaysia.
He said the government would continue to seek efforts to get a share in the world's formal manpower markets to catch up with other countries.
"Frankly speaking, the government has for the past tens of years had no vision of placing its migrant workers in the formal sectors," he said.
Jumhur admitted for the past tens of years the government had been trapped into only sending workers for the informal sector or housemaids while only eight countries had been willing to accept workers in the sector.
"Finally, the formal sector market was taken by workers from neighbouring countries like the Philippines," he said.
He said he had recently visited Darwin to extend the country's workforce market in the Australian state.
"Sixty-percent meat exports from Darwin go to Indonesia but only 500 Indonesian workers work in that state while there are around 8,000 Philippines working there," he said.
Jumhur, who was flanked by agriculture ministry officials, on the occasion had tried to pressure authorities in Darwin to give more opportunity to Indonesian workers saying unless Darwin would do it Indonesia might possibly shift to Brazil and India for its meat imports.
"I have launched a threat like that and therefore finally Australia agreed to increasing employement of Indonesian workers," he said.
Jumhur said that various Middle Eastern countries had opened an opportunity for tens of thousands of Indonesian nurses to work in various hospitals in those coutries.
"They actually are more comfortable with Indonesian nurses because they are fellow Moslems. Our workers only need English language training," he said.
He said South Korea and Japan had also received a lot of Indonesian workers to work in the formal sectors such as in the health, industrial and manufacturing industries and the opportunity was rising.
The government, he said, is also working hard to get a manpower market in Europe, America and Africa.
"We must not fall behind the Philippines and Vietnam," he said at a fast breaking gathering with dozens of formal workers who were leaving for Malaysia.
He said the government would continue to seek efforts to get a share in the world's formal manpower markets to catch up with other countries.
"Frankly speaking, the government has for the past tens of years had no vision of placing its migrant workers in the formal sectors," he said.
Jumhur admitted for the past tens of years the government had been trapped into only sending workers for the informal sector or housemaids while only eight countries had been willing to accept workers in the sector.
"Finally, the formal sector market was taken by workers from neighbouring countries like the Philippines," he said.
He said he had recently visited Darwin to extend the country's workforce market in the Australian state.
"Sixty-percent meat exports from Darwin go to Indonesia but only 500 Indonesian workers work in that state while there are around 8,000 Philippines working there," he said.
Jumhur, who was flanked by agriculture ministry officials, on the occasion had tried to pressure authorities in Darwin to give more opportunity to Indonesian workers saying unless Darwin would do it Indonesia might possibly shift to Brazil and India for its meat imports.
"I have launched a threat like that and therefore finally Australia agreed to increasing employement of Indonesian workers," he said.
Jumhur said that various Middle Eastern countries had opened an opportunity for tens of thousands of Indonesian nurses to work in various hospitals in those coutries.
"They actually are more comfortable with Indonesian nurses because they are fellow Moslems. Our workers only need English language training," he said.
He said South Korea and Japan had also received a lot of Indonesian workers to work in the formal sectors such as in the health, industrial and manufacturing industries and the opportunity was rising.
The government, he said, is also working hard to get a manpower market in Europe, America and Africa.
