The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Tue, 07/19/2011
Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said that the government had prepared up to 3 million jobs in anticipation of an increase in unemployment due to a moratorium on sending Indonesian migrant workers abroad.
“We will provide jobs to 3 million workers to anticipate [rising] unemployment during the implementation of the moratorium on sending migrant workers [abroad],” Muhaimin said as quoted by tribunnews.com on Tuesday.
Muhaimin said that the National Program for Community Empowerment (PNPM Mandiri) supported the effort to provide the jobs. According to Muhaimin, the ministry will also promote programs to increase production as well as efficiency and that an appropriate use of technology should be implemented in areas where most migrant workers come from.
The government decided to issue the moratorium on sending migrant workers to Saudi Arabia in protest to last month’s beheading of an Indonesian migrant worker named Ruyati. The government claimed that the Saudi Arabian government did not send notice of the execution.
Muhaimin previously said that, from January to June, the number of migrant workers leaving for Saudi Arabia decreased to around 12,000 to 15,000, down from 30,000.
(Hopefully not all gas and wind this "“We will provide jobs to 3 million workers " I am prepared to give bpk Muhaimin a loan of my magic wand!) siK
di 19 jul 2011 - 21:28