Team to better prepare workers to be sent abroad<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The city administration has formed a joint team
\nto work out a plan on manpower as part of the efforts to improve
\nthe competitiveness of Indonesians working abroad.<\/p>\n
Soegiyo, the chairman of the City Council's Commission E on
\nsocial welfare, said yesterday that the joint team includes
\nmembers of the City Council and officials from the City Manpower
\nOffice. According to him, the team will review the facilities and
\ncurriculums of the city-owned manpower training institutes.<\/p>\n
\"The plan is designed to better prepare those who want to
\nenter the job market, especially those who want to work
\noverseas,\" Soegiyo said.<\/p>\n
He added that the existing facilities and curriculums at the
\nfive city-owned training centers needed to be improved in order
\nto produce quality workers who could measure up to
\ninternationally accredited standards.<\/p>\n
\"The training should be directed to meet the demands of the
\ninternational job market,\" Soegiyo said.<\/p>\n
Soegiyo said that workers abroad could be used as a source of
\nforeign exchange for Indonesia just like in the Philippines,
\nwhere foreign workers where the second largest source of the
\ncountry's foreign exchange.<\/p>\n
\"Why can't Indonesia, which has plenty of workers, boast of
\nthe quality of it's manpower as well?,\" Soegiyo asked.<\/p>\n
Soegiyo said that as a first step, the team was thinking about
\nintroducing a plan in which the city administration will finance
\nthe training of a group of poor, jobless high school graduates at
\nthe city-owned training institutes and then send them to work
\nabroad.<\/p>\n
After working abroad for a few years, they would be required
\nto return the cost of the tuition fees. These funds would then be
\nused to send another group abroad.<\/p>\n
Soegiyo said the team will cooperate with the city-owned Bank
\nDKI to give loans to the trainees in order to finance their
\ntravel costs.<\/p>\n
The training of the workers, Soegiyo said, is necessary
\nbecause private agencies which send Indonesian workers abroad are
\nconcerned only with manpower supply and do not prepare the
\nworkers to meet market demands.<\/p>\n
As a result, Indonesia cannot meet the international market
\ndemand for educated manpower, Soegiyo said. \"Our manpower is, on
\nthe whole, still poorly prepared in terms of skills and the
\nmastery of the English language,\" he added.<\/p>\n
The number of jobseekers which registered last year at the
\nJakarta Office of the Ministry of Manpower numbered 183,482 --
\n117,388 of whom were high school graduates, 47,379 graduates from
\nvarious vocational schools equal to high school, 8,212
\ncollege\/academy graduates and 10,503 who were university
\ngraduates. (arf).<\/p>",
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