Foreign Workers Regulation Potentially Increase Investment
The Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) estimates that Presidential Regulation No. 20 of 2018 on the Usage of Foreign Workers is expected to push the investment until 20 percent. Head of BKPM Thomas Trikasih Lembong said, the permit to usage of foreign workers is one of the main complaints of investors who invest in Indonesia.
"In this foreign workers permit they (investors) have to meet and go around the agencies. If this rule is really on the path of reform that covers ‘Online Single Submission`, I think the increase can be 10-20 percent," he said.
The former Minister of Trade ensures that the increase of investment will encourage the usage of foreign workers. The reason is that the international investors have been putting billions dollars in other countries with full of risk.
"I’m sure they (the investors) wants to bring their people because it would be too risky if something happen. If I were an investor I would want to put my own people or the best people in the world without seeing their citizenship in the investment," he said.
Nevertheless the number of foreign workers in Indonesia only reach one per thousand compared than the number of Indonesian workers currently working abroad. In fact, roughly, from 1,000 workers in Indonesia, only one of them is a foreign worker.
"So it is unreasonable that 999 Indonesians ‘fear’ to be surrounded by a single stranger. This fact has even been recognized by senior figures on the opposition coalition," he said. Although the government supports the simplification of procedures for the usage of foreign workers, the government on the other hand continues to improve the skills and knowledge of local workers.
It is hoped that these efforts can encourage local workforce to develop with better jobs and earn higher income. "Therefore, the government prepares vocational training programs and polytechnics to improve the skills of our workforce in order to develop," he concluded.
Source: Bisnis Indonesia
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