Internship program in industry or better known as 'On the Job Training' (OJT) is obligatory in tourism vocational higher education. This program is profoundly rooted in "cooperative education" that provides learning process and experience to prepare students to face the outside world. Extensive internships are conducted in domestic and overseas tourism industry. This study  investigates students' perceptions of the effectiveness of the internship program in the tourism industry abroad, students' satisfaction with internship programs in the tourism industry abroad, and how student perceptions about the internship program affect student satisfaction. This research is a quantitative descriptive. Primary data are obtained by distributing questionnaires, secondary data using literature study, documentation, field observations, and interviews. Primary data is processed using SPSS. Respondents are students of several tourism high schools in Jakarta who have completed an internship program in the tourism industry abroad. The finding served as a valuable reference for the vocational higher education curriculum to improve the quality of graduates to match the demands of the global tourism industry. Also, students' perception is valuable inputs to evaluate the learners' needs and lack and to monitor how the students' skills have been relevant to the industry needs to win the global work competition.