The Ministry Of PPMI Asks The Sigi Regency Government Of Central Sulawesi To Build BLK For Asah Skills For PMI Candidates

PPMI Minister Abdul Kadir Karding made a video call with one of the PMIs from Sigi accompanied by the Governor of Central Sulawesi and the Regent of Sigi, Thursday (2/1/2025). (ANTARA)

SULTENG - The Ministry of Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (PPMI) asked the Sigi Regency Government in Central Sulawesi (Sulteng) to provide a special Work Training Center (BLK) for local Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI).

"We ask local governments to help provide BLK specifically for Indonesian migrant workers so that people who want to go abroad can be trained in their skills at that place," said PPMI Minister Abdul Kadir Karding in Langaleso Village, Sigi, Thursday, January 2, as reported by Antara.

He said that in the future all districts in Central Sulawesi could become pockets of migrant workers to go abroad.

"Our job is to focus on empowering and protecting all migrants while working abroad," he said.

He explained that the Sigi Regency Government was quite responsive regarding PMI.

"Of course, there is a lot of potential that can be encouraged to be able to work abroad and many PMIs from Sigi have succeeded and even opened businesses in their home areas," he said.

The Minister of PPMI appealed to all people who want to work abroad to depart procedurally.

"Don't go if you don't have skills and don't understand the basic language of the destination country and if you're already working, you have to be good at managing finances so that it can be sent to your family in the village," he said.

Japan's demand for PMI in 2025 reached 225 thousand people.

"We continue to be committed to improving existing regulations so that all migrant workers can be fully registered at the Ministry of PPMI and in the future these brokers must be eliminated, basically we want to ensure that migrant workers are protected and safe while working abroad," he said.

He said migrant workers who had finished working abroad could return to their home areas to open businesses, even creating new jobs.

"Hopefully these migrant workers can have a positive impact on the people in the area," said the Minister of PPMI.

The Minister of PPMI inaugurated five productive migrant villages in Sigi Regency, Central Sulawesi, namely Langaleso, Sibowi, Pesaku, Kaleke, and Basar