It is impossible for the country to run alone and answer the need for enormous job opportunities abroad. Hence, collaboration is importantBadung (ANTARA) - Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI) Head Benny Rhamdani said his side pursued collaboration with parties to accelerate Indonesian migrant workers' (PMI's) placement aboard since it could not rely on just one ministry or agency.
"It is impossible for the country to run alone and answer the need for enormous job opportunities abroad. Hence, collaboration is important," he stated during a press conference after closing the Employment Business Meeting (EBM) in Badung, Bali, Wednesday.
BP2MI held an Employment Business Meeting in Bali on July 25-27, 2022, to connect Indonesian migrant worker placement companies (P3MI) with overseas employment providers, Indonesian representatives abroad, and other relevant parties, Rhamdani stated.
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At the meeting, the participants explored opportunities for cooperation under the intergovernmental (G to G) and also inter-private (P to P) schemes, as well as exchanged information on placing Indonesian migrant workers through related regulations, he explained.
At the meeting, the BP2MI also convinced overseas employment agencies that the Indonesian migrant workers sent were skilled workers and had met the standards.
"To the employment agency, we had ensured that our migrant workers were qualified. The country would also be serious about placing skilled and professional workers, who have expertise according to the chosen job and have sufficient foreign language skills,” Rhamdani remarked.
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Hence, he urged overseas employment agencies to not hesitate to hire PMI since BP2MI had guaranteed their expertise and skills.
"Do not doubt their skills and professionalism since the PMIs are our country's dignity. We will not send workers, who do not meet the expectations of employment agencies abroad," he affirmed.
Until mid-2022, Rhamdani remarked that Indonesia had placed around 75 thousand migrant workers in 69 countries, including 481 PMIs to South Korea, under the intergovernmental cooperation (G to G) scheme this week.
With that figure, he is optimistic that by the end of the year, the number of PMIs dispatched abroad can reach hundreds of thousands of workers.
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