Garuda Indonesia Buka Sekolah Pramugari di Makassar
Garuda Indonesia to Open Flight Attendant School in Makassar
Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Jakarta (B2B) - Maskapai nasional PT Garuda Indonesia, bekerja sama dengan pemerintah daerah Sulawesi Selatan, akan membuka sekolah pramugari di Makassar, pada Desember.
"Kami telah memutuskan untuk membuka sekolah di Makassar setelah kami menuntaskan kesepakatan dengan pemerintah provinsi. Pemda akan menyediakan gedung untuk pusat pelatihan pramugari," kata VP Learning & Development Garuda, Muhammad Fajar Siddik, Jumat.
Menurut Fajar, pusat pendidikan diharapkan dapat menghasilkan pramugari yang memenuhi syarat Garuda dan Citilink yang melayani rute Indonesia timur.
Sampai saat ini, Garuda Indonesia hanya melatih pramugari di Jakarta. Garuda juga menempatkan 60 pramugari terlatih di Makassar, namun jumlah tersebut tidak memadai untuk melayani semua rute di bagian timur Indonesia.
"Permintaan kami untuk pramugari terus meningkat sejalan dengan meningkatnya jumlah pesawat yang ditempatkan di Makassar," ungkap Fajar.
Fajar mengaku optimistis bahwa pusat pendidikan akan menarik minat banyak pelamar menjadi pramugari karena menjadi pekerjaan favorit di Garuda. Menurut dia, setiap kali Garuda membuka lowongan pekerjaan untuk posisi pramugari, jumlah pelamar selalu tinggi, mencapai 1.000 orang dari pelamar dan Garuda hanya memilih sekitar 20 orang hingga 25 orang saja.
Dalam upaya lebih memperkuat basis usaha di Indonesia Timur, Garuda berencana membangun fasilitas pemeliharaan, bisnis kargo dan pusat cold storage di Makassar. Perusahaan juga akan membangun hotel di Makassar, Manado (Sulawesi Utara), Kendari (Sulawesi Tenggara) dan Gorontalo.
Jakarta (B2B) - National flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia, in cooperation with South Sulawesi administration, will open a flight attendant school in Makassar, South Sulawesi, in December.
“We have decided to open a school in Makassar after we secured an agreement with the provincial administration. The administration will provide the building for the flight attendant training center,” Garuda Indonesia learning and development vice president Muhammad Fajar Siddik said Friday.
According to Fajar, the center is expected to provide qualified flight attendants for Garuda Indonesia and its low cost carrier Citilink serving eastern Indonesia routes.
As of today, Garuda Indonesia has trained its flight attendants only in Jakarta. The company has stationed 60 Jakarta-trained flight attendants in Makassar alone, but the number would not be enough to serve all routes in eastern parts of Indonesia.
“Our demand for flight attendants keeps increasing in line with the increasing number of airplanes stationed in Makassar,” said Fajar.
Fajar was optimistic that the school would attract many applicants as the flight attendant position was among the preferred jobs in the company. According to him, every time the company opens up a job vacancy for a flight attendant position, the number of applicants has always been high, reaching 1,000. From these applicants, the company only chooses between 20 and 25 people.
In a bid to further strengthen its foothold in Eastern Indonesia, the airline plans to establish a maintenance facility, cargo business and a cold storage center in Makassar. The company will also build hotels in Makassar; Manado, North Sulawesi; Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi; and Gorontalo.
