Arghea Desafti, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 05/25/2011
The Transportation Ministry has announced plans to produce 4,000 sailors annually to meet increasing demand.
“We are currently producing 1,500 [graduates] a year from our state-owned sailing academies [STIP]. Hopefully we can increase the number of graduates to 4,000 next year,” Transportation Ministry Education and Training chief Bobby Mamahit said Wednesday at a discussion on improving the quality of human resources in the transportation sector.
Ministry data reveals that Indonesia will require at least 43,800 new sailors over the next five years.
The ministry is currently operating sailing schools in Jakarta, Tangerang, Semarang, Makassar, Surabaya, Barombong and Serang.
“One of the challenges we face is that we are still seeing graduates preferring to work for companies overseas rather than here in [Indonesia]," Bobby said.
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