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Hadapi MEA, Pekerja Harus Dilatih Keterampilan
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Bogor – Menteri
Ketenagakerjaan M. Hanif Dhakiri mengatakan tenaga kerja di Indonesia tidak
perlu khawatir dalam menghadapi Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN (MEA). Karena tenaga
kerja asing yang masuk harus mempunyai kompetensi sesuai dengan jabatan yang
ditawarkan. Menurutnya, ada asumsi yang salah soal MEA, terutama terkait isu
bakal maraknya tenaga kerja asing yang masuk Indonesia setelah berlakunya MEA.
Sehingga pemerintah harus mengendalikan tenaga asing.
"Banyak
yang berpikir MEA itu seolah – olah pekerja dari luar dengan dalam negeri
saling berhadapan. Padahal bukan itu," kata Hanif usai menghadiri
Musyawarah Besar Serikat Pekerja Panasonic Gobel di Bogor, Sabtu (27/2/2016).
Dalam
menghadapi MEA, lanjut Hanif, bagaimana mendorong agar sumber daya manusia
Indonesia mampu bersaing dengan pekerja asing.
"Prinsip
yang harus dipegang adalah kerjasama dan kompetisi daya saing," kata dia.
Namun untuk
menciptakan tenaga kerja yang handal, memiliki kemampuan intelektual dan
keterampilan, harus ada sinergitas antara pemerintah pusat dengan pemerintah
daerah.
"70
persen pekerja Indonesia lulusan SMA. Untuk bisa bersaing dengan tenaga asing
harus ada peningkatan kemampuan intekektual dan keterampilan melalui pelatihan
profesi," ujarnya.
Hanif
menjelaskan, saat MEA yang dikhawatirkan justru nantinya banyak tenaga
profesional dari dalam negeri memilih bekerja menjadi tenaga asing.
"Jika
tingkat kesejahteraannya lebih tinggi, bisa saja mereka pilih bekerja di
luar," pungkasnya. (Achmad Sudarno/Ndw)
Masyarakat
Ekonomi ASEAN (MEA) or in English ASEAN Economic Community is a form of
cooperation between the countries of ASEAN member states that have a pattern
integrate ASEAN economies by establishing free trade systems. ASEAN members
includes Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, the
Philippines, Cambodia, and Brunei Darussalam.
The main purpose MEA/ AEC who
want to removes significant obstacles to economic activities the region,
implemented through 4 main pillars, as follows:
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ASEAN as a single market and production base.
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ASEAN as competitive economic region.
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ASEAN as an equitable economic development.
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ASEAN as an integration into global economy.
Forms of cooperation undertaken
by the MEA are as follows:
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The development of the human resources and increased
capacity.
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Recognition of professional qualifications related.
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Consultation more closer to the financial and economic
macro policy.
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Have a steps are in trade finance.
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Improving infrastructure.
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Developing the electronic transactions via e – ASEAN.
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Merge all existing industries troughout the region in
order to promote local resource.
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Improving the role of the private sectors to build MEA.
In this
article, M. Hanif Dhakiri as a minister of labor said that the Indonesian
people should not worry in the facing of the MEA. This is because not all
foreign workers into the domestic to compete because of the entry foreign
workers must be compete for the positions offered.
In the facing
of the MEA, the government has issued a presidential instruction No. 11 Tahun
2011 regrading the implementation of the MEA blueprint commitments in an effort
to prepare for the free trade.
According to
M. Hanif Dhakiri, how to Indonesian human resources be able to compete with a
foreign workers. The principle that must be held in the facing of MEA is the
cooperation competitiveness.
MEA is one
way to establish or strengthen the skill and creativities of Indonesian peoples
or domestic workers through the professional training to be able to compete
with foreign workers who will compete with domestic workers. By improving the
skill and creativities, domestic workers will be competitive and capable of
rapidly developing industries in terms of jobs are becoming increasingly
difficult.
Therefore the
MEA is required in order to ASEAN, especially Indonesia’s competitiveness is
increased and able to compete with developed countries, inability of the open
flow of goods or services, but also market professionals, such as doctors,
lawyers, accountants, and others. For that the government should give more
seriously consideration to facing the MEA with the strategic measures in favor
of the interests of the people.
There are
several steps have been made by the Indonesian workers by the government’s
strategic plan to face the MEA/ AEC, as follows:
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Strengthening economic competitiveness.
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ACI’s programs (I love Indonesia).
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Strengthening the sector of small medium micro
enterprises (UMKM).
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Infrastructure improvements.
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Improving the qualities of human resources.
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Institutional reforms and governance.
