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100,000 being trained for corridors
JOHOR BARU: The Indonesian government is training more than 100,000 of its people as semi skilled and skilled workers to be hired in the Iskandar Development Region (IDR) and East Coast Economic Region (ECER).
According to Indonesian Consul-General Renvyannis Gazali, Indonesia has a ready supply of manpower that were at least secondary school graduates. “I had talks with Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman and Johor Baru Mayor Datuk Mohd Naim Nasir and was informed that IDR would be needing 100,000 workers from our country,” he said. He said Indonesia could definitely supply enough workers for the IDR during the construction stage but they were also interested in getting their labour force in as skilled workers.
He added the workers would be specially selected and trained to provide good, honest and diligent manpower to the region.”Of course, we hope that most of our manpower could be hired as skilled workers such as engineers and IT professionals here,” he added. There are only about 3,000 skilled workers from a total number of 450,000 labourers in Johor, Pahang, Malacca and Negri Sembilan.
According to him the consulate has also set-up a guideline for minimum wages at RM560 per month.
Renvyannis was talking to reporters during his visit to an Indonesian fair held at Jusco Permas Jaya yesterday. “The doors of Johor is wide open to investors now with the IDR and East Coast Economic Region (ECER) projects and we would like to grab this opportunity to invest and export our products here too,” he said.
