How to find job in Jakarta?

monika.dixit wrote:

which profile

romina89 wrote:

Oh hi Luke,

Thanks for your replied. I am new here so I still have no idea where should I post to be honest.
Can you help me then?

Much as it's a new topic on this tread, I suppose it's as good a place as any to start.
Luke is right, your friend needs to have skills that are difficult or impossible to find amongst Indonesians.
Work permits are difficult to get here, so it'll be a hard job finding legal work unless he/she can do something special.

Perhaps you could give us a few details about your friend, education level, a rough outline of previous employment, that sort of stuff.

Fred wrote:

romina89 wrote:

Oh hi Luke,

Thanks for your replied. I am new here so I still have no idea where should I post to be honest.
Can you help me then?

Much as it's a new topic on this tread, I suppose it's as good a place as any to start.
Luke is right, your friend needs to have skills that are difficult or impossible to find amongst Indonesians.
Work permits are difficult to get here, so it'll be a hard job finding legal work unless he/she can do something special.

Perhaps you could give us a few details about your friend, education level, a rough outline of previous employment, that sort of stuff.

Oh hi Fred,

Thanks for your comment. Umm what I know that he's currently working as account in an insurance company in Milan. He wouldn't mind to work as an Italian teacher or chef though. He just wanted to move from italy.
But of course still looking for an oppurtinity. He has no idea how to find a job here. Unfortunately he only has me here. That's why I am trying to ask you guys like how did you move here and how did you find a job as an expat?

romina89 wrote:

I've tried. But there's no answer ahaha
I actually wanted to sent  you a private message but I can't.
In order to prevent spam issues. I don't understand why

The forum has a problem with spammers and scammers.
Many forums do, but many such people aim at expats as they're seen as rich, so good targets.

Accountants are not likely to get legal work out here, but an Italian teacher has a hops, but only if they're correctly qualified.
Saying that, Italian doesn't seem all that popular, but give it a google and see what happens.

Hansson wrote:

I am not talking about Bali because I have no idea how it is over there but from what I have read in this forum nearly every immigration officer is honest there.

But in certain cities in Java it goes on and on. If you find yourself in such a situation, be sure to secretly record every conversation that takes place at immigration. The recordings can be passed to the anti-corruption department in Jakarta who will take action.

I would have agreed with that advice up to around 5 years ago, but not so much now.
I wouldn't tell you not to record conversations, but it's unlikely you'll get anything that the KPK would be interested in.
Corruption in immigration is a thing of the past as far as my experience goes, and that of every other expat I've spoken to directly.
I've been to immigration a lot over this last few months and spoken to a lot of foreigners I came across there, but not a one complained of corruption (although one was less than happy at the officers because there were issues with her family).
I have to applaud the Indonesian immigration service for the rapid eradication of the old corruption problem they had.

Back to the topic in hand.
Any foreigner wishing to work legally in Indonesia has to prove they have skills unavailable or rare in the Indonesian workforce. The purpose is simply to protect the Indonesian population from a flood of foreign workers entering an already competitive workforce.

Martr wrote:

Hello all!

I want to ask about the job in Jakarta. Because i've heard it's hard to find a job there. I'm from Europe and planning to move to Jakarta. And looking for civil engineering job. Can anyone help me about this ? Thank you!

It is hard to get a job, but the jobs tend to be well paid.
The hiring company has to pay quite a lot of money for the visa and work permit, and expat salaries tend to be quite high, probably well above 20 million/month.
A more accurate number can probably be gained from someone in the trade.

There's always open jobs available in Jakarta

There are many jobs available, but not a lot in that link would be possible for expats to do legally.


As for the link, I would find it hard to suggest anyone look at a new site such as that, more so when the registrant's details are hidden and the company they used to register the site is known to host scammers of various types.

Basically, as the jobs I've seen on there would be illegal for expats to take, and the lack of anything that would allow me to trust the site, I'd avoid it.