By: Choirul Fuadi)*
CIDISS – Trade Minister Thomas Trikasih Lembong stated that Australia provides 36000 jobs vacancy in tourism and hospitality for the labor of Indonesia.
“Trade and investment Minister Australia Steve Ciobo comes to me and said that’s thing,” Lembong said at the Hotel Intercontinental, Melbourne, Australia, Thursday (17/3/2016), according to a statement received here on Friday, as in Antaranews.com.
The Minister said, according to Ciobo, the large amount of job openings because the value of the currency of Australia weakened due to the devaluation of the currency rate policy Yuan, China. Currently, Australia dollar exchange rate already weakened 30 percent.
In addition, the tourism sector they leapt, but labor shortage. And Steve Ciobo interested with Indonesia’s labor to fill job vacancies.
He said, because of the geographical location of Indonesia and Australia’s close relative, as well as the work can be categorized as seasonal work or just 3-4 months. This means that Indonesia can workers returned to their own time without waiting for the old employment contract.