The Ministry Of Manpower Explores European Countries For Placement Of TKI And Internship Workers

Minister of Manpower (Menaker) Yassierli/PHOTO: Dafi-VOI

DENPASAR - The Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker) has begun exploring several countries in Europe, such as Germany and Austria, for labor cooperation for both migrant workers and interns.

"A big country, so far Japan, Korea has thousands of it, we are also exploring now that there is a request from Europe, namely from Germany and Austria," said Minister of Manpower (Menaker) Yassierli in Denpasar, Bali, Thursday, November 13.

Seeing this new opportunity, the Minister of Manpower asked the public to prepare themselves, where the challenges in working in European countries are language. So far, most Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) and intern workers have been placed in Asian and Australian countries.

"The first is of course the language is more important, we can prepare other field (work) matters, it will take a long time in the language," said the Minister of Manpower, Yoassierli.

In addition to the work sector that can be adjusted through training and coaching of the Ministry of Manpower, he said, the characteristics of workers from Indonesia have also been liked by European companies, making it easy to adjust.

"Indeed, workers from Indonesia, whether they are interns or working abroad, they are liked because earlier, the people are polite and ready to work," said the Minister of Manpower.

Minister of Manpower Yassierli emphasized the implementation of the STAR acronym (Santun, Tangguh, Adaptive, and Rajin) for Indonesians who want to work or internship abroad, so that they succeed and return to the country with more experience and skills without stumbling into problems.

Preparing jobs for all Indonesian people, he admits that it is the responsibility of the government in accordance with the constitutional mandate, so that one of the programs, one of which is apprenticeship abroad, is supported by the government.

For interns, the Ministry of Manpower has now launched an overseas and domestic internship program, where domestically vacancies are opened for 100 thousand participants in one year and incentives are given in the form of pocket money for six months of work.

Meanwhile, foreign internships lasted for three years without incentives from the government, but immediately received income from the placement of foreign companies.