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Govt to dispatch 400,000 migrant workers, boost upskilling
The migrant workers ministry plans to send around 400,000 migrant workers for overseas placements this year as it works to develop a training ecosystem to secure skilled jobs and ramp up protection in destination countries, including against human trafficking.
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Migrant Workers Protection Minister Abdul Kadir Karding (second right, rear) watches as a trainee checks the wiring of a pneumatic machine on April 14, 2025, during his visit to the Surakarta Vocational Training and Productivity Center in the Central Java city. The center offers 12 training programs to the public, including people interested in working overseas as a migrant worker. (Antara/Mohammad Ayudha)
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he government is working to send hundreds of thousands of its citizens overseas to fulfill demand for 1.7 million migrant workers this year, while avoiding certain countries with recorded cases of trafficking in Indonesian workers.
Migrant Workers Protection Minister Abdul Kadir Karding, who hails from the National Awakening Party (PKB), said his ministry planned to dispatch by the end of this year 25 percent of the total demand, or around 400,000 workers.
This figure is a third more than the 300,000 Indonesian workers sent to various countries last year, according to data from the ministry.
Among the ministry’s focus this year is to provide more training and other support for people, so they can depart to their host countries as skilled workers rather than low-skilled labor.
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The ministry’s data show that the majority of Indonesian migrant workers are employed in low-skilled jobs that have little to no legal protection, such as domestic workers, day laborers and plantation workers.
“We will create and prepare vocational training [programs], because one of the requirements for workers to be protected is to have proper skills,” Karding said on Monday, as quoted by tempo.co.
