"Joint efforts are needed to optimize this opportunity by placing as much TKI`s as possible," Handriyo said in Makassar on Wednesday at a dinner for the participants of a coordinating meeting with Indonesian representative offices in Asia, the Pacific and the United States.
The meeting was attended by head of the Indonesian workers placement and protection national agency (BNP2TKI), Indonesian Consul General in Penang Chilman Arisman, and head of the Indonesian trade and economic office (KDEI) in Taiwan Herman Sembiring.
He said he is speeding up the finalization of an MoU on Mandatory Consular Notification and on the placement and protection of of workers between the governments of Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam.
It has also the positive support of the Sultan of Brunei as the result of a visit of the Indonesian president to Brunei Darussalam on February 24 and 25, 2011.
Handriyo said Brunei is in need of 2,018 oil workers in block L and block M, 5,500 seismic personnel and supervisors, a crew of 350 members, surveyors, 460 dynamite men, 37 infrastructure workers, and three Telisai toll road workers.
On top of that, he added, a number of workers is also being considered for building Brunei airport, nurses and doctors.
Of the 51,391 Indonesians in Brunei up to February 28, 2011, 1,041 TKIs are engaged in the oil business, 118 in industry, 11 nurses, 231 in plantations, 366 office drivers, 3,037 in the services sector, 924 professionals, and 79 ship crew members.
The TKIs in the informal sector consisted of 16,525 household maids and 3,562 personal drivers.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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