Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration RI and IMM Japan today,  approved the amendment to the implementation of the memorandum of understanding to Japan apprenticeship program, the office of the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, Jakarta. The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding amendments made by the Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Muhaimin Iskandar and President of IMM Japan Kyoe Yanagisawa.

According to the minister Muhaimin Iskandar, the implementation of cooperation programs in Japan apprenticeship actually been going on for about 17 years. However, as changes to employment regulations and conditions of the Japanese economy today is an amendment to the memorandum of understanding which already exists.

“We Japanese have the Employment Act so that the new memorandum of understanding that already exists also require adjustments and amendments. Well, today, a new memorandum of understanding was signed,” he explained.

Minister added, Employment Act new Japanese better. “Laws that put workers in Indonesia a better position with the same rights as Japanese workers. Some Japanese companies also raised the current standard of wages of interns from Indonesia,” he said.

For information, apprenticeship program to Japan have been conducted since 1993 up to December 2009 and has managed to dispatch as many as 29,587 interns from Indonesia to Japan. Meanwhile, the current workers who still run apprenticeship programs in Japan amounted to 5668 people.

Apprenticeship program, held in Japan for 3 years. The Indonesian trainee placed in various companies spread in Japan with approximately 56 areas of work, especially in the field of manufacturing industry.