Great people,
Just got a BREAKING NEWS from Reuters, This News has clarified my previous post in regards with Expats Requires to Pass Bahasa Indonesia Exam, Hoax or Not ?
I Personally disagree with the Bahasa Indonesia Exam for Foreigner, it is a such stupid protectionist policy. Indonesia is not ready for ASEAN Economy Community but is ashamed to admit it. lol..
BREAKING NEWS
I Personally disagree with the Bahasa Indonesia Exam for Foreigner, it is a such stupid protectionist policy. Indonesia is not ready for ASEAN Economy Community but is ashamed to admit it. lol..
BREAKING NEWS
Indonesia will withdraw a plan that would force foreign
workers to take local language proficiency exams after protests from investors,
two government officials said.
Manpower Minister Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri earlier this month
told reporters the government would require existing and prospective foreigners
to pass Indonesian language tests to work in the country, a move seen by many foreign
investors as protectionist.
Currently, foreigners do not have to speak Indonesian to
receive a work permit for Southeast Asia's largest economy.
"Coordinating ministers agreed last week that the
planned regulation should be dropped. The details are now being worked out
within the cabinet," said a government official, with knowledge of the
matter, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the
media.
A second government official confirmed that the plan for
language tests would be withdrawn after "many people complained, including
domestic investors who said they needed foreign expertise."
Minister Dhakiri on Friday denied that the language test
requirements would be cancelled. The minister was not immediately available for
comment on Tuesday.
Companies have increasingly raised concerns about the
growing difficulties of obtaining work permits for foreign workers, with
language exams being the latest example.
"If they do withdraw this, we are encouraged by that.
It is an unnecessary barrier," said Lin Neumann, managing director of the
American Chamber of Commerce Indonesia.
Vice President Jusuf Kalla told Reuters last week that the
planned regulation was "well intentioned" to protect low-skilled jobs
ahead of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) integration this year, but should
be reviewed because of its potential impact on investment.
President Joko Widodo, who took office in October, wants to
spur economic growth from an estimated 5.1 per cent in 2014 to 5.8 per cent
this year, relying mainly on higher investment.
so Great people, Expats requires to pass Bahasa Indonesia Exam, Hoax or Not ? I can assure you now. It's HOAX
so Great people, Expats requires to pass Bahasa Indonesia Exam, Hoax or Not ? I can assure you now. It's HOAX
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more at:
http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/indonesia-withdraw-local-language-plan-foreign-workers#sthash.Q2NPyJP8.dpuf
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