Creating jobs to benefit RI

Creating jobs to benefit RI

With respect to your front page article on May 19 regarding
the government's intensified push to find employment for
Indonesian workers abroad, it has always amazed me why the
government has not made greater efforts to promote work for these
people in Indonesia as opposed to abroad.

Case in point: My parents are in their late 70s and could do
with home help in the form of servants to assist them in their
daily lives. Due to the cost of property in the United Kingdom,
they are unable to afford to maintain the space required to house
any full-time help.

So my question is: Why does the government not do more to
attract people like my parents to move to Indonesia to continue
their retirement in a "help friendly" environment? If my parents
moved to Indonesia to live out the rest of their lives, they
would most likely employ one driver, one cook, two cleaners, two
security guards and a gardener, so seven people or more. And they
would be contributing to the Indonesian economy by buying
housing, paying PLN electricity and food bills, banking, paying
for telephone services, doctors, shopping, etc.

The point is that job creation and consequent wealth creation
would be much greater for Indonesia if the jobs for Indonesians
were to remain in country as opposed to being exported.

ROBERT ESKAPA
President Director
Izzi Pizza
Jakarta