The ministry partnered with 20 licensed Indonesian migrant worker placement companies (P3MI) to promote formal job openings in sectors including hospitality, healthcare, construction, agriculture, and fisheries.
Target destinations include Japan, Türkiye, Germany, Romania, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Brunei Darussalam, Austria, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Singapore, Canada, Croatia, Bulgaria, and South Korea.
Deputy Minister of P2MI Christina Aryani said the ministry’s participation aims to expand access to official overseas employment channels.
“We want to ensure that Indonesians interested in working abroad have direct access to credible job opportunities. We will also register prospective workers, including those who have not yet met competency standards,” Christina said in a press statement on Wednesday.
She added that the registration process would help the ministry identify suitable training programs for qualified candidates.
“In this way, we are not only opening job opportunities but also preparing a skilled and globally competitive workforce,” she said.
Besides providing information access, P2MI is facilitating direct matchmaking between P3MI companies and prospective migrant workers to enable open, face-to-face exchanges.
Christina said the ministry’s involvement in the Job Festival 2025 aims to raise public awareness about the importance of following official placement procedures and to strengthen a professional, well-protected, and globally competitive migrant workforce ecosystem.
The event is part of Indonesia’s broader effort to expand legal labor migration, reduce the number of unregistered workers, and boost remittance inflows from skilled labor abroad — a key contributor to the national economy.
According to data from the Ministry of Migrant Workers Protection (P2MI), as of July 27, 2025, there were 390,268 overseas job openings across 34 countries, covering 420 job types in 17 sectors. Of that total, 5,722 positions were available in the engineering sector.
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