Foreign cooperation director of BNP2TKI Anjar Prihantoro said here Tuesday that the great number of vacancies was the outcome of a workshop and business meeting on working opportunities in the formal sector in Brunei and Malaysia held in Yogyakarta from March 22 to 25 by 25 manpower agencies in the two countries and 39 private TKI placement agencies.
The vacancies, he said cover natural oil and gas, construction, manufacture, plantations, health, industry and infrastructure.
Anjar said Brunei, for instance, was in need of 2,018 oil workers, 5,500 seismic personnel and supervisors, 350 crew members, s surveyors dynamite men 460, infrastructure workers 37, and three toll road managers.
Personnel are also considered for the development of the Brunei airport, nurses and doctors, and Sarawak has already secured personnel and workers until 2020 for the development of the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) 2.5 million people, manufacturing 250 thousand, oil palm plantations 6,475, and wood working 15,017.
In the meantime, Sabah, he said, this year needs 132,521 plantation workers and 300 palm oil plantation workers in Tawau.
Anjar said the two neighboring countries in need of foreign workers can be satisfied by TKIs. (*)
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