Batam Local Workers Lose Competing With Overseas Workers, What Happened?

TRIBUNBATAM.id - According to data from Central Statistics Agency called Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) the number of Batuaji and Sagulung residents is 280,265.

And among that number, few residents with employee status in companies at Batam, Riau Islands Province.

Unfortunately, there are still few who already have certificates of work expertise.

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Difficulties, and the high cost of taking labor expertise certificates makes Batuaji and Sagulung residents who incidentally employees in the company difficult to compete.

Especially in the era of Asean Economic Community (MEA).

280,265 people are spread in two sub-districts in Batam, where Sagulung sub-district is 152,810 people spread in six villages, while 127,455 people are in Batuaji sub-district which is spread in four sub-districts.

The high cost of obtaining a certificate of expertise makes it difficult for laborers in Sagulung to compete with workers from abroad or at manager level in company environment at Batam.

"Actually, if we see, system and workings of employees recruited by companies from abroad. The so-called experts, are not much different from local employees. Even local employees are better than employees from abroad. It's just they have certificates," said Hendrik, one of the ministers at shipyard company in Tanjunguncang, Saturday (05/10/2019).

He explained that manager-level employees were imported from abroad as professional staff. It doesn't work better than local workers.

"In fact they also learn from local workers. But they have certificates of expertise," said Hendrik.

He also said, local employees themselves who have expertise are difficult to advance and compete because of high cost of taking certificates for expertise.

"Now to take a certificate of basic expertise the cost is already above IDR 7,000,000," he said.

He also said that the higher level of expertise certificate to be taken, the higher the costs.

"If we continue to follow, it can reach hundreds of millions," said Hendrik.

In a separate place, Parlaungan Siregar who is familiarly called by President Nato and also as Sagulung community leader, hopes that Head of BP Batam, Muhammad Rudi will immediately activate the work training center in Sagulung.