Current situation and challenges in employment of Indonesian nursing/certified care worker candidates based on economic partnership agreement between Indonesia and Japan

This study investigated the current situation and activities at the workplace and readiness to pass the national board examination in Japanese after the work. And the changes in daily living and health condition among Indonesian nursing/certified care worker candidates before and after their work. Questionnaires which consisted of “daily living””support system,””health condition,” and the State Trait Anxiety Inventory were collected two times, before the work (the survey 1) and fifty subjects in longitudinal survey of the same study participated six months after the work (the survey 2). Language difficulty of Indonesian nursing/ certified care worker candidates was the highest concern in both the survey 1 and the survey 2. The mental health condition of nursing/ certified care worker candidates worsened in the survey 2 compared to the survey 1. This was relevant to their backgrounds and feeling toward Japanese coworker, or level of satisfaction with their work. It was suggested the they needed more support in Japanese language in both the survey 1 and the survey 2, while in the survey 2 nursing candidates needed opportunities for training as nurses.