Migrant Workers, Training Costs, and the Role of Businesses

Agung Mahesa Fikri Ahmad Afandi Suar Team
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By: Agung Mahesa Fikri, Ahmad Afandi, Suar Team

Key factors to improve competitiveness are skills training, mastery of foreign languages, and understanding the culture and laws of the destination country. Many Indonesian workers lose out to laborers from the Philippines or Malaysia due to language limitations.

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