SE Sulawesi preparing 100 nurses for employment in Japan
Kendari (ANTARA News) - The Southeast Sulawesi administration is preparing 100 local residents to work as nurses at hospitals and old-folk homes in Japan, a provincial manpower official said.
The effort was being made in cooperation with Hikari Jeindo, a
Japanese-language teaching center in Kendari, the deputy head of
Southeast Sulawesi`s Manpower and Transmigration Office, Abdul Salam,
said here Wednesday.
Hikari Jeindo would help the workers to master the Japanese language up to a certain level.
Other qualifications the would-be nurses had to meet were possession of a
strata-I degree or a diploma-III degree in health science , he said,
adding that they should also be in a good state of health and abide by
prevailing regulations.
"We are preparing them to meet Japan`s demand for Indonesian nurses. The nurses will be sent to Japan in 2009," Salam said.
He added the preparations were necessary to ensure that the nurses could
speak Japanese fluently and adapt themselves to living conditions in
Japan.
"From 2005 to 2008, Japanese industries were not accepting workers from
Sulawesi because workers from Sulawesi at the time often violated their
work contracts," Salam said.
Japan`s current request for Indonesian nurses was a good opportunity to
repair Sulawesi workers` negative image in Japan, he said.
According to Southeast Sulawesi Manpower and Transmigration Office
records, the province sent as many as 765 workers to Japan and 150
others to Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Singapore in 2002-2004.
Until recently, a total of 89,441 job seekers had registered themselves
with the office and 400 of them had been placed at two local
sugar-product companies.
