Jokowi Asks Foreign Workers Permit Not to be Difficult

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) asked all ministers of the working cabinet to facilitate foreign workers (TKA) with certain qualifications to be made easier. The permit process is also in line with the entry of investment into Indonesia.
Era of globalization like now, Jokowi said the need for better arrangement related to the entry of foreign workers in Indonesia.
"The labor market has crossed the borders of the country, we send many laborers or often we call migrant workers to various countries in the Middle East, in Southeast Asia and East Asia, and at the same time as the entry of investment we also receive the entry of foreign workers, with certain qualifications required in the investment process, "said Jokowi when opening a limited meeting (ratas) about the foreign workers in the Office of the President, Jakarta, Tuesday (6/3/2018).
The process of easy permit of foreign workers coupled with the entry of foreign investment to Indonesia. According Jokowi, investment that goes to Indonesia is always included with the needs of foreign workers in certain fields or experts that have not been available in Indonesia. So it needs to be well organized and arranged.
"In order to be able to ensure our national interest is good so as to increase the attractiveness of investment, as well as the interest of the absorption of our workforce in the country, it is necessary to arrange the entry of foreign workers, and in structuring the use of foreign workers in Indonesia," he explained.
In the arrangement, Jokowi requested that the permit process is not as complicated as it has been complained by investors. The former mayor of Solo is requesting coordination between the Ministry of Manpower, the Ministry of Justice and Ham in this case the Directorate General of Immigration implements an online-based permit process.
"First I ask that the licensing process is not complicated, the procedure is made simpler in the submission of the plan, the filing of foreign workers RPTKA, permit placement of foreign workers or IKTA or KITAS, limited stay visa and limited stay permit, which I request to run faster with based online and done integrated integrated, "he said.
Furthermore, Jokowi also requested the control and supervision of foreign workers in an integrated manner. He does not want the ministries and agencies concerned to walk alone on this issue.
"Because I also get reports, some reports of labor users are disrupted and uncomfortable, they feel there is sweeping and that we see the Ministry of Manpower alone, Immigration own road, other agencies do not supervise separately. we consolidate, so that no lon