A woman carrying a parasol makes her way into a commercial building in Tokyo, Japan, May 24, 2019.JAKARTA — Speaking in Japanese and bowing, 24-year-old Siti Maesaroh offers a tray with a mug and two bowls to a fellow student pretending to be an elderly person, before asking him if he wanted chopsticks and a spoon to eat with.
"I think the reason Japan chooses us is because Indonesian youths are very capable of caring for the elderly," said Maesaroh, who is attending the Onodera User Run school in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta. Japan is one of the world's most rapidly ageing societies, with people who are 65 or older now accounting for 28 per cent of the population, according to UN data.
Hiroki Sasaki, labour attache at the Japanese embassy in Jakarta, estimates only about 130,000 of the 340,000 special skilled job vacancies in Japan have been filled.As of December 2022, there were more than 16,000 Indonesians working under Japan's special skilled worker scheme, the second-highest number behind Vietnam.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)