Labour officials attend Asean meeting in Jakarta
By Rosli Abidin Yahya 

Senior officials from the Labour Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs are currently attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Labour Ministerial Meeting (ALMM) in Jakarta, Indonesia. The senior officials' meeting which commenced on Monday discussed cooperation in training, including the monitoring of the labour market, workers' social insurance and cooperation in industrial relations.

Besides officials from the ten Asean countries, delegates from Asean's partner countries of China, South Korea and Japan, as well as representatives of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), also attended the meeting.

The meeting will wind up on May 7 to give way to the ministerial meeting from May 8 - 9, which will be officially opened by Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri.

The ministerial meeting is expected to produce a joint communiqué on Asean's integration in labour cooperation, development of skills, safety at work and health, dialogue on social issues and cooperation with the ILO.

Asean also seeks to establish cooperation with China on social insurance, with Japan on industrial relations and with South Korea on manpower development.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin