More than 60 Indonesian migrant workers on Sunday attended a free makeup course at the Indonesia Exhibition Center in Taipei.
The Pelatihan Makeup Level 2 course is part of a series of workshops organized by the Indonesian Economic and Trade Office to teach migrant workers skills that they can use to start a bsuiness when they return home.
The course was led by one Indonesian-Taiwanese and three Taiwanese instructors who taught attendees makeup skills and techniques for Indonesian weddings and other formal occasions.
Indonesian-Taiwanese instructor Jenny Ho (何雅玲), also known as Jenny JR, said she feels fulfilled when her students apply the skills they learn from her in real life.
“Being able to help them succeed when they return to Indonesia is of course very fulfilling, because they are my fellow citizens,” said Ho, who operates beauty salons in Taipei and Taoyuan.
One of the participants, 32-year-old caretaker Sry Susi Susanti, said she found the course important because she wants to start a bridal makeup business in her hometown after she finishes working in Taiwan.
Susanti works for a private household in New Taipei City, while her husband is employed at a factory in Taichung. The couple have a 12-year-old son living with their relatives in Indonesia.
“My plan for when I return to Indonesia is to open my own makeup business for weddings where I can be together with my husband, as he can be the photographer,” said Susanti, who has been working in Taiwan for eight years.
She said she plans to use her skills for the weddings and celebrations that occur in her home city of Bima in West Nusa Tenggara Province.
Noerman Adhiguna, an analyst at the Indonesian trade office’s labor department, said that the office would continue to hold free lessons to teach migrants crafts, along with culinary, makeup and beauty skills, as well as other skills.
The goal is to teach up to 500 Indonesian migrant workers this year, he added.
As of August, there were 240,509 Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan, of whom 170,023 were women, Ministry of Labor data showed.
Actor Darren Wang (王大陸) was sentenced to six months in prison, commutable to a fine, by the New Taipei District Court today for contravening the Personal Data Protection Act (個人資料保護法) in a case linked to an alleged draft-dodging scheme. Wang allegedly paid NT$3.6 million (US$114,380) to an illegal group to help him evade mandatory military service through falsified medical documents, prosecutors said. He transferred the funds to Chen Chih-ming (陳志明), the alleged mastermind of a draft-evasion ring, although he lost contact with him as he was already in detention on fraud charges, they said. Chen is accused of helping a
SECURITY: Starlink owner Elon Musk has taken pro-Beijing positions, and allowing pro-China companies to control Taiwan’s critical infrastructure is risky, a legislator said Starlink was reluctant to offer services in Taiwan because of the nation’s extremely high penetration rates in 4G and 5G services, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said yesterday. The ministry made the comments at a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee, which reviewed amendments to Article 36 of the Telecommunications Management Act (電信管理法). Article 36 bans foreigners from holding more than 49 percent of shares in public telecommunications networks, while shares foreigners directly and indirectly hold are also capped at 60 percent of the total, unless specified otherwise by law. The amendments, sponsored by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Ko
The eastern extension of the Taipei MRT Red Line could begin operations as early as late June, the Taipei Department of Rapid Transit Systems said yesterday. Taipei Rapid Transit Corp said it is considering offering one month of free rides on the new section to mark its opening. Construction progress on the 1.4km extension, which is to run from the current terminal Xiangshan Station to a new eastern terminal, Guangci/Fengtian Temple Station, was 90.6 percent complete by the end of last month, the department said in a report to the Taipei City Council's Transportation Committee. While construction began in October 2016 with an
NON-RED SUPPLY: Boosting the nation’s drone industry is becoming increasingly urgent as China’s UAV dominance could become an issue in a crisis, an analyst said Taiwan’s drone exports to Europe grew 41.7-fold from 2024 to last year, with demand from Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression the most likely driver of growth, a study showed. The Institute for Democracy, Society and Emerging Technology (DSET) in a statement on Wednesday said it found that many of Taiwan’s uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) sales were from Poland and the Czech Republic. These countries likely transferred the drones to Ukraine to aid it in its fight against the Russian invasion that started in 2022, it said. Despite the gains, Taiwan is not the dominant drone exporter to these markets, ranking second and fourth
RSS