REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Indonesian workers to be completely prepared to face ASEAN Economic Community in 2015. One of impacts is the presence of thousands of Filipino workers who will work in this country, especially for middle class' job opportunities.

President Director of Telkom Indonesia, Arief yahya said that level of competition would be very tight. Traffic flow of import products will flood domestic market. When free market is opened in Asia, level of work competition will be tighter as lots of foreign workers will work in existing companies in Indonesia. 

"We need to watch out for it. Indonesia will be main market for foreign products and we will be spectators in our own country," Yahya said recently.

Quality of Indonesia's products and human resources needs to be increased. Quality of human resources must be a priority. Yahya predicts in 2015, thousands of workers from Philippines will come to Indonesia. They will immediately invade domestic labor market. Such condition has happened in Singapore and Dubai.

In both countries, Filipino workers have dominated middle class employment. In fact, many of them already started to work in Australia. Filipino workers are more fluent in English than Indonesian workers. Of course, their costs are relatively cheaper, so that a lot of Indonesian companies will hire them.

Telkom prepares improvement of human resources quality to face Asian free trade. In 2012, Telkom allocated 150 billion IDR for human resources development. This year, the state owned telecommunication company allocated 500 billion IDR for the program. Next year, the figure will be rose to 750 billion IDR. 

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