Poor to get mobile training units
Poor to get mobile training units
JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto launched a mobile vocational
training program yesterday to help people in impoverished areas
create jobs for themselves.
The Ministry of Manpower has provided 370 vans as mobile
training units for the 1997/1998 fiscal year to train a minimum
of 35,000 job-seekers in villages across all 27 provinces except
Jakarta.
Yayasan Dana Sejahtera Mandiri, a foundation chaired by
Soeharto which focuses on helping the poor, also pledged to give
another 400 vehicles to the program.
"This program aims to facilitate poor families in rural areas
raise their standard of living," Soeharto said in his speech at
the program's inauguration ceremony at his Bina Graha office.
According to the President, improved training in rural areas
would help curb urbanization because villagers could work in
their own villages.
Minister of Manpower Abdul Latief said the free vocational
training the program offered included skills needed for fruit
processing, fishing, tailoring, making handicrafts, and repairing
electronic goods.
The program costs US$25 million. The funding was provided by a
soft loan from the South Korean government under a bilateral
agreement.
The instructors will stay at least two weeks in each village
they visit."The people will be trained according their talents
and market demand," Latief said.
This program is a part of the government's integrated efforts
to alleviate poverty in Indonesia, where at least 22.5 million
people were still living in poverty in 1996.
The government is determined to completely eradicate poverty
by the end of the Seventh Five-Year Development Program in 2004,
Soeharto said last month.
Yayasan Dana Sejahtera Mandiri has collected more than Rp
768.6 billion (US$320.25 million) from the country's richest
citizens over the last two years.
"We will give another 400 vehicles to the manpower ministry to
accelerate the program," the foundation's deputy chairman Haryono
Suyono said.
"After completing their training, we will provide them with
cheap credit to start their business," Haryono, who is state
minister of population, said.
Latief said Indonesia would have a work-force of 105 million
by 2000, of whom 83 percent would have only an elementary school
education or be dropouts. Most would be living in rural areas.
"Their production must be market-oriented, and it is our duty
to train them," said Latief. (06)
JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto launched a mobile vocational
training program yesterday to help people in impoverished areas
create jobs for themselves.
The Ministry of Manpower has provided 370 vans as mobile
training units for the 1997/1998 fiscal year to train a minimum
of 35,000 job-seekers in villages across all 27 provinces except
Jakarta.
Yayasan Dana Sejahtera Mandiri, a foundation chaired by
Soeharto which focuses on helping the poor, also pledged to give
another 400 vehicles to the program.
"This program aims to facilitate poor families in rural areas
raise their standard of living," Soeharto said in his speech at
the program's inauguration ceremony at his Bina Graha office.
According to the President, improved training in rural areas
would help curb urbanization because villagers could work in
their own villages.
Minister of Manpower Abdul Latief said the free vocational
training the program offered included skills needed for fruit
processing, fishing, tailoring, making handicrafts, and repairing
electronic goods.
The program costs US$25 million. The funding was provided by a
soft loan from the South Korean government under a bilateral
agreement.
The instructors will stay at least two weeks in each village
they visit."The people will be trained according their talents
and market demand," Latief said.
This program is a part of the government's integrated efforts
to alleviate poverty in Indonesia, where at least 22.5 million
people were still living in poverty in 1996.
The government is determined to completely eradicate poverty
by the end of the Seventh Five-Year Development Program in 2004,
Soeharto said last month.
Yayasan Dana Sejahtera Mandiri has collected more than Rp
768.6 billion (US$320.25 million) from the country's richest
citizens over the last two years.
"We will give another 400 vehicles to the manpower ministry to
accelerate the program," the foundation's deputy chairman Haryono
Suyono said.
"After completing their training, we will provide them with
cheap credit to start their business," Haryono, who is state
minister of population, said.
Latief said Indonesia would have a work-force of 105 million
by 2000, of whom 83 percent would have only an elementary school
education or be dropouts. Most would be living in rural areas.
"Their production must be market-oriented, and it is our duty
to train them," said Latief. (06)