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View all search resultsMalang to give training to returning workers
The Malang regency administration has prepared a special training program for thousands of migrant workers expected to be repatriated from across the Asia-Pacific region due to the global economic downturn, a local official said
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The Malang regency administration has prepared a special training program for thousands of migrant workers expected to be repatriated from across the Asia-Pacific region due to the global economic downturn, a local official said.
Vice Regent Rendra Krisna said the administration has coordinated with the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry and the Finance Ministry to design the special training program and has prepared financing so migrant workers can directly join the training program upon arriving home.
"The ex-migrant workers will be trained in entrepreneurship in the labor training center with hope that they will set up their own businesses in the service and agricultural sectors after taking part in the training program," he told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.
"The ex-migrant workers are expected to create jobs for themselves in the informal sector because they have sent part of their monthly payments home and they will bring severance payments when they are repatriated."
Rendra acknowledged that Malang was an industrial zone and is home to hundreds of factories but said it was impossible to employ the ex-migrant workers in the industrial areas because they did not have the required skills as they were mostly employed as housemaids in countries including Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
Head of the Malang regency manpower agency Djaka Ritamtama said his office was seeking opportunities to reroute the migrant workers to industrial areas in Batam, Riau Islands because the industrial areas in the regency had numerous problems triggered by the hike in the regional minimum wage.
He also said his office and the labor training center would also cooperate with the Solidarity for Indonesian Migrant Workers (SBMI) in providing the training program.
With the migrant workers' repatriation, the regency's foreign remittance from them will drop in the coming years. The regency received Rp 9.2 billion (US$816,900) in foreign remittance in October 2008, down from Rp 10.6 billion in June, 2008.
