Ministry of Social Affairs Prepares SchoolRakyat Graduates for Job Opportunities in Japan

The Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos) is opening opportunities for collaboration with Regiono Group to prepare prospective caregiver workers to be sent to Japan. The prospective workers to be prepared are graduates of SchoolRakyat and social assistance recipients to strengthen the graduation programme.

“So from poor families, then we train them, yes, as caregivers. And indeed, we hope this can become a permanent, strategic collaboration,” said Deputy Minister of Social Affairs (Wamensos) Agus Jabo Priyono when receiving the CEO of Regiono Group, Nakashima Yasuharu, at the Kemensos office in Central Jakarta on Monday, 13 April 2026.

Regiono Group is a Japanese institution focused on education and healthcare, including care for the elderly and children. The institution operates in Fukuyama and Hiroshima. “We hope this collaboration continues. Our task is to provide caregivers for us to train, then send them off,” said Agus Jabo.

This collaboration is expected to support Kemensos’s programme in terms of graduation or improving community welfare. Currently, Kemensos is working to strengthen that graduation programme.

Meanwhile, according to Agus Jabo, the group that can be prepared to become caregivers are graduates of SchoolRakyat. For graduates who want to work directly, they can be facilitated to meet that need. There will be many high school graduates in the future. “This means the prospects for transferring caregivers from Indonesia to Japan have great potential.”

The Director General of Social Rehabilitation at Kemensos, Supomo, explained that the curriculum applied at SchoolRakyat is organised to train and develop students’ talents. Thus, they have the ability to work after graduating from school.

“We have many of them in districts and cities, all have SchoolRakyat. That’s where we will prepare the children to become caregivers. So in the final curriculum, if they don’t want to go to university and prefer to work, that’s where we include it, we’ve prepared it. So once they graduate from that, they can go there (to Japan),” he said.

Kemensos will also invite other stakeholders to follow up on this collaboration opportunity. One of them is the Ministry of Protection for Indonesian Migrant Workers (KP2MI).

“Therefore, in the future, after perhaps going to Japan, there will be recommendations given to us. Then we will invite KP2MI to arrange the collaboration, because many need it,” said Supomo.

He realised that if only one institution is collaborating, the opportunities are not great. “But if there are many, then there will be more. And we want to facilitate our citizens who need jobs to become caregivers,” he said.

CEO of Regiono Group, Nakashima Yasuharu, stated that over the next few years, his side needs as many as 400 caregivers to work in Japan. These caregivers will later work in social homes to care for children and the elderly for 5 days a week. The working duration is 8 hours. Nakashima said his side is greatly helped by workers from Indonesia. “We, as Japanese citizens, are also helped by Indonesians,” he said.