- ANTARA/Ismar Patrizki
VIVAnews – Following the policy of suspension of Indonesian migrant worker placement in Saudi Arabia, the government must provide 2.5 million new jobs every year to absorb the workers.
The Manpower and Transmigration Ministry also estimated that between 15,000 and 20,000 Indonesians are deferred from working in the Middle Eastern country every month.
Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar conveyed this on the sideline of a meeting with coordinating minister for the economy at the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy Building, Jakarta, today.
“It’s being calculated. It is estimated that (the government) must provide 2.5 million jobs a year,” said Muhaimin.
According to Muhaimin, all the governmental institutions including the Ministry of Public Work, were still calculating the demand of labor to accommodate the people who cannot go working abroad.
“Actually the focus is increasing the job field as the anticipation of the suspension,” said Muhaimin, explaining the reason of the new program that was initiated because of the suspension.
The Mandiri National Community Empowerment Program (PNPM) in several areas, said Muhaimin, is a program that can be an apt instrument to absorb Indonesian workers. In addition, the governmental program can also open business opportunity apart from other efforts including adding the types of program and business incentives.
Several areas that are targeted for the absorption of workers who are deferred from going abroad are West Java, East Java and West Nusa Tenggara. So far those areas have been the basis of Indonesian migrant worker recruitment.
“So all the ministries are asked to save the budget for the allocation of the empowerment program and the reduction of unemployment in migrant workers’ are of origin,” he said.
Translated by Indah Lestari
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