REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Qatar is keen to invest in manpower training, Eia Saad Al-Naimi, the Qatari minister of administrative development, manpower and social affairs, stated at a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart Hanif Dhakiri in Qatar on Wednesday.
"We are interested to invest in the field of training to improve the skills of workers in Indonesia. Qatar still needs several professional workers in various sectors, and the investment scheme would be a good approach to enable the two parties to monitor the process and quality of training for workers," Al-Naimi was quoted as saying by the public relations bureau of the Indonesian Ministry of Manpower here on Thursday.
Qatar is currently intensifying the development of its infrastructure, such as office buildings, hotels, ports, transportation network, and processing industries.
In view of this, the demand for technicians, operators, managers, and engineers is high in line with the growing local manpower market.
At the meeting, Al-Naimi informed Dhakiri that in 2016, Indonesia had an opportunity to fill 24 thousand vacancies in various fields in the world's biggest gas producer.
At present, some 40 thousand Indonesians work in Qatar, of which 10 thousand are semi-skilled workers and professionals, while the rest are domestic workers.
"To follow up on the meeting, we will be glad if Indonesia could provide a list and specifications of its available professional workforce and a proposal for investment in manpower training. We will coordinate with other concerned offices in Qatar," Al-Naimi remarked.
Minister Dhakiri had met Minister Al-Naimi during his visit to the Middle East, including Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
A day before, Minister Dhakiri met Saudi Minister of Manpower Mufarrij Al-Haqbani to discuss the placement of Indonesian workers in that country.
On the occasion, he urged Saudi Arabia to pay greater attention to the problems being faced by Indonesian workers, including those entering that country before and after Indonesia issued a moratorium on sending workers to countries in the Middle East.
Following on the similar lines as Qatar, Saudi Arabia too has urged Indonesia to again start sending domestic workers.
Minister Dhakiri, however, noted that no policy had been revoked for sending workers in the informal sector.
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