Honda workers help BLKI

JAKARTA (JP): The Japanese-based workers union of Honda Motor automotive company donated on Friday a simulator of a Honda Accord engine worth Rp 130 million (US$11,448) to the branch office of the government's industrial training center (BLKI) in Pasar Rebo, East Jakarta.

The union's deputy chairman, Kobayashi, said the donation was part of the union's program to help speed up the transfer of Japanese technology to Indonesian technicians.

"We hope the simulator engine can bolster the development of the automotive industry in the country," Kobayashi said after a ceremony marking the handover of the simulator engine.

Kobayashi said the 40,000-member union also planned to donate five similar simulator engines to other BLKIs in the country.

Last year, the union donated a similar simulator engine to the BLKI branch in Parepare, South Sulawesi. (03)