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Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago country consists
of 13.466 islands. Indonesia is the fourth-largest populated country and the
largest Muslim populated country in the world, about 230 million although
officially not Islamic countries.
Indonesia is known for its natural resources wealth, that’s
why Indonesia colonized by Netherlands for 350 years and Japan for 3.5 years a
view years ago. This made Indonesia people grew to be 'inferiority' people.
Although it's been more than 60 years got the independence, but the syndrome of
‘colonized mental’ still attached. Indonesia people feel themselves not aligned
with other people from other nations.
The simple example could be seen from the differentiation of
salary rate which very larger between expatriates and Indonesia employees. The
expatriates paid 10 times bigger than Indonesia employee though with the same
level of education, ability, responsibility and performance.
According to the standards of the Bappenas, a foreign engineer
in Jakarta, get salary around more than US $ 5000.00 per month. Otherwise with the
same qualification with Indonesia employee received only $ 500.00. It’s very common
in a project, though with higher education qualifications such as MSc or PHd, Indonesia
remain paid lower than expatriate who just BSc. In addition expatriates also
get facilities such as a luxury house or apartment, car, sports club, education
fee for their children and other facilities.
Actually it does not matter if the expatriate paid in such a
high salary if they have an unique ability that is not owned by the Indonesia
employee and absolutely necessary. But if with the same capabilities and
performance, and then paid higher just because of his foreigners status then it
will be not logical.
Therefore, it is necessary to change the paradigm that
considers the expatriate (the ‘white skin’ people) is better than Indonesia
employee. The Government should also immediately do ‘HUMAN RESOURCES’ mapping
owned by Indonesia employee, both with regard to quantity and quality. With all
the statistics and maps which clear about the spread of Indonesia in various HR
disciplines, it will get a clear picture about the strength of Indonesia Human
Resources.
To be continued in Part II, Indonesia in ASEAN Economic
Community atau Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN (MEA)
