Pact on worker training

Pact on worker training

JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Public Works Radinal Mochtar and
Minister of Manpower Abdul Latief signed a five-year cooperation
agreement here yesterday to improve the quality of workers in the
construction industry.

"We have to train our workers, both in technical skills and in
management, in order to compete with workers from other
countries," Latief said after signing the agreement.

He said that without improving training activities, Indonesia
might experience a shortage of construction workers in the coming
years due to increasing demand both domestically and from other
countries such as Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea.

Radinal said that the growth of demand for workers in the
country alone will be in line with the 14 percent annual growth
rate of the Indonesian construction industry.

According to Radinal, about 150,000 companies with 4.5 million
workers are now involved in the construction industry.(31)