Positions That May be Filled by Foreigners: Education Institutions

Pirhot Nababan

The Minister of Labor and Transmigration has issued Decree No. 462 of 2012 on Positions That May Be Filled By Foreign Workers within the Education Service (“Decree”). It is an implementation of Article 42 (5) of Law No. 13 of 2003 on Labor, which states that specific positions and fixed-term employment for foreigners are stipulated under a Minister of Labor and Transmigration (Menakertrans) decree.

The available positions for foreigners in educational institutions are stipulated in the Decree’s Appendix. The Appendix categorizes the available positions into eight categories: