RI urged to improve skill of workers

RI urged to improve skill of workers

BANDUNG: Indonesia has yet to maximize efforts to create
overseas job opportunities for its skilled workers to help reduce
unemployment in the country, a job consultant said here on
Wednesday.

Juliati Simorangkir, who is also the director of Roll
Internusa Mandiri that sends medical workers abroad, said that in
the next 20 years developed countries like the United States,
Britain and other European states would need up to 2 million
nurses.

They are now hiring nurses from several Asian countries but
Indonesia was not one of them, she added.

"The shortages have been recognized as opportunities by the
Philippines, India, China and South Korea, which all have begun
sending nurses overseas," Juliati said after signing a
cooperation agreement with the Bandung-based Padjajaran
University, aimed at improving nursing skills in Indonesia.

She said the U.S. currently needs around 500,000 new nurses
per year and Britain 10,000, and that the needs have so far been
met largely by those aforementioned countries, particularly the
Philippines. --JP