Jakarta, Nov. 18 -- Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment Muhaimin Iskandar announced the provision of a foreign language subject for vocational high school students enrolled in the SMK Go Global program to work in foreign countries.

"From an early stage, we are asking classes prepared for work abroad to adopt the minimum required language competency standards," he said on Tuesday.

According to Iskandar, this step is taken to improve the competency of prospective migrant workers from an early age.

He cited the example of placement in Japan, where prospective employees must have studied Japanese at the N4 standard.

He considers this standard to be the basic competency requirement for working in Japan.

"It must be adopted imm...