BNP2TKI Continues Seeking Overseas Employment Markets

Medan (Antara Bali) - One of the tasks of the National Agency for Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI) is seeking and securing overseas employment for skilled Indonesian migrant workers.
        
"While the need for meeting the overseas employment market is very urgent, the supply of availability of workers is needed," head of BNP2TKI Moh Jumhur Hidayat said in a general lecture to nursing students at the Imelda Indonesian Workers General Hospital in Medan on Saturday.
         
The occasion was held on the fifth day of the fifth Ramadhan Safari of BNP2TKI from July Juli  to August 3,  2012 to North Sumatra, NAD, Riau, and Riau Islands.
         
Jumhur said BNP2TKI has a foreign and promotion cooperation deputy to seek and secure employment markets and map overseas employment markets with available domestic workers to be absorbed abroad.
        
The BNP2TKI chief hoped the various higher learning institutes or educational and skill institutions would hold education for use abroad.
       
He said Japan was in dire need for nurses of old people and until know the Japanese and Indonesian governments cooperate to meet the need of health workers.
        
Likewise, South Korea which each year gives a quota  workers of Indonesia and industrial countries in Europe, the US and Middle East, are in dire need of workers to activate their massive industries.
        
He said some six million Indonesian migrant workers are employed in various fields in 116 countries.(*/M938)