Berlin, July 4 -- The Federal Foreign Office of Germany is encouraging skilled workers from all over the world, including Indonesia, to work and live in Germany amid the demographic issues the country is currently experiencing.

"So to keep things simple, we want skilled immigration to Germany and we need skilled immigration to Germany. And we need it really badly," said Dr. Martin Bergfelder, Special Representative for Skilled Immigration in the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, in Berlin, which was confirmed on Friday.

Bergfelder said that currently Germany is experiencing a major labor shortage.

For some time, the German labor market relied on migration from other European countries, particularly from Eastern Europe in the last 20 t...