Abstract: Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (IJEPA) is the only bilateral
cooperation framework managed by Indonesia, which includes the movement of natural
persons. Moreover, the Government of Japan gives opportunities for medical personnel
especially Indonesian nurse and caregiver to work in Japan. Therefore, the Government
of Indonesia requires to ake the higest possible advantages of the cooperation program
by preparing Indonesian nurse and caregiver to compete with those of other countries.
Thus Indonesia not only has skilled and qualified workforce, but also able to maintain
its existence in the international world. This research is aim to demonstrate the effects
of professionalism, training, and motivation on the performance of Indonesian nurse
and caregiver. In this case, we employ multiple regression model by taking variables of
professionalism (X1), training (X2), motivation (X3) as the independent variables and
performance of Indonesian nurse and caregiver (Y) as the dependent variable. The
reseach population is defined as the Indonesian nurse and caregiver who work in Japan
especially Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo and the sample is selected using purposive
sampling based on Slovin formula. Based on the results, we conclude that
professionalism has positive effect on the performance and can be proven to be true, In
addition the training has positive effect on the performance and can be proven to be
true. Finally, motivation has positive effect on the performance and can be proven to be
true.
Keywords: Professionalism, Training, Motivation, Performance, Nurse, and Caregiver