Wamen Christina Calls The World Demanding Competent Migrant Workers

Deputy Minister of P2MI Christina Aryani together with the Director of Polytechnic AtI Makassar Muhammad Basri and lecturers and students after the Public Lecture at the AtI Makassar Polytechnic Campus, Wednesday (19/3/2025). (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Deputy Minister (Wamen) of the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (P2MI) Christina Aryani said the current global world is much different from before so migrant workers must adjust.

"The global world is much different, the placement of migrant workers is now needed to be skilled, previously for domestic workers," said Christina when giving a Public Lecture at the Makassar Industrial Engineering Academy Polytechnic Campus (ATI), Wednesday, March 19, was confiscated by Antara.

At the public lecture, which carried the theme "Worldizing from Campus to Build Global Competitiveness", Deputy Minister of P2MI invited AtI Makassar students to be able to prepare themselves to enter the world of work with international qualification.

He said his presence at the AtI Makassar Poltek was to find talented talents considering that the world of special global work in the industrial sector demands expertise and skills.

Therefore, the government is here to bridge this and this year the government is targeting 425 thousand PMIs with an income target of IDR 349.4 trillion.

"Currently, a lot of workforce is needed for welding (las) in Japan, Germany and South Korea," he said.

According to him, PMI delivery must go through an official route through the government, in order to avoid problems and be deported.

Meanwhile, Director of Polytechnic AtI Makassar Ir Muhammad Basri MM said, as an academy fostered by the Ministry of Industry, there are aspects applied to produce reliable industrial human resources.

The four aspects include improving the quality of education, student abilities, critical and creative thinking skills, as well as the ability to improve communication and cooperation.

This is done as an effort to play a strategic role in facing global competition. Including strengthening the government's commitment to protecting Indonesian workers and opening up opportunities for vocational education graduates to fill overseas work markets.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Industrial Human Resources Development Agency, Masrokhan, said that the institutions he leads have 29 work units (satker) spread across Indonesia.

Meanwhile, Indonesia received a demographic bonus with 67.5 percent of the productive age of the total population of around 278 million people.

Masrokhan said that observing this phenomenon, the government held an increase in human resource capacity that was competitive through vocational education in 22 satkers, including supporting the implementation of a three-month internship to obtain job certification and placement.