JAKARTA, Indonesia: Vocational establishments throughout Indonesia are providing coaching for college students searching for to fill job vacancies in Japan.
Japan is likely one of the world’s most quickly ageing societies, with people who find themselves 65 or older now accounting for 28 p.c of the inhabitants, in accordance with U.N. knowledge.
Hiroki Sasaki, labour attache on the Japanese embassy in Jakarta, estimates that solely about 130,000 of the 340,000 particular expert job vacancies in Japan have been stuffed. A overseas workforce, subsequently, is turning into more and more essential, he mentioned.
“I think the reason Japan chooses us is because Indonesian youths are very capable of caring for the elderly,” mentioned Maesaroh, who’s attending one such college, the Onodera User Run college in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta.
The college, established in 2022, additionally affords Japanese language coaching for these college students searching for to enroll in a Japanese authorities program to make use of foreigners with particular abilities to work in sectors, equivalent to care giving.
As of December 2022, there have been greater than 16,000 Indonesians working beneath Japan’s particular expert employee scheme, the second-highest quantity behind Vietnam.
“In Indonesia every year, we have an increase in the population of about three million. Yet here we have our own challenge, which is a lack of jobs,” she mentioned.