RI sends 23 trainee nurses to Australia

RI sends 23 trainee nurses to Australia

JAKARTA: The labor consignment agency, the Binawan Group, has
sent another 23 nurses to work in Australian hospitals.

The nurses, who finished their course of study at the Binawan
Institute of Health Sciences (Stikes Binawan) in Jakarta, left
for Sydney on Tuesday to complete their study and work in
Australian hospitals for two years. They will also take courses
at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and work toward
their bachelor of nursing degrees so they can become registered
nurses in Australia.

According to the labor contract with Australian hospitals, the
workers will be paid A$2,700 per month (Rp 19.7 million).

Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Fahmi Idris said
during a farewell party for the nurses on Tuesday that the
government would continue to push the labor export sector in
order to help resolve the unemployment problem at home.

"The government will continue encouraging labor exporters to
train more and more job-seekers to be sent overseas and to shift
to the formal sector to minimize labor abuse problems as well as
to improve workers' income," he said.

He added that the government would provide more incentives for
labor export companies focusing on the export of skilled workers.
-- JP