Youths go to Japan on apprenticeships

Youths go to Japan on apprenticeships

PALU, Central Sulawesi: Twenty-eight youths will be sent to
Japan later this year to join a two-year apprenticeship program
at a number of companies there.

Organized by the provincial office of the Ministry of Manpower
in cooperation with the Japanese Association for International
Human Resources Development, the youths were selected from among
256 candidates. They defeated the rest of the groups during tests
of physical fitness and psychological examinations.

The youths will first be given a couple of months of training
in Bogor and Jakarta in September. The apprentices are expected
to obtain adequate experience to enable them to work in Japanese
companies here once they return. (swe)