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GOVT CONTINUOUSLY TRYING TO REDUCE NUMBER OF ILLEGAL WORKERS ABROAD
Semarang, Sept 19 (ANTARA) - The government is making sustained efforts to reduce the number of Indonesians working abroad illegally through various regulations and protection schemes, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Erman Suparno said.
The efforts had already begun to show results as the proportion of illegal workers in the overall number of Indonesians going abroad to work had dropped, he said here Friday.
"Some time ago, 75 percent of those going abroad to work were illegals but now the number has dropped to 60 percent," Suparno said.
The minister said he had asked regional administrations to select people intending to work abroad tightly and supervise the process of sending them overseas..
"The selection must done carefully to ensure that only legal workers are sent abroad. Thereby, we can decrease the number of illegal workers," he said.
The government was also trying to protect migrant workers through bilateral agreements, working agreements, insurance and legal protection.
"We have concluded cooperation agreements with workers' destination countries so that we can easily solve any problems the workers may meet," he said.
The minister said the government would provide the same protection to legal and illegal workers.
About the murder of Siti Fatonah, a worker from Cilacap, Central Java, in Malaysia , the minister said it as an isolated case.
"We have to consider such problems case by case. The employer did the crime on purpose," he said.
Siti Fatonah was killed on September 12 by her employer, Phoy Yow Yong, in Puchong, Selangor, Malaysia. The suspect was now under investigation by the police.
Her body was flown from Malaysia on September 18 by flight GIA 821 to Jakarta and further to Semarang the next day with flight GIA 230.
The body arrived at Ahmad Yani airport on Friday, September 19 and was received by the minister, Central Java Governor Ali Mufiz and Siti Fatonah's family.
The victim was a legal worker who had been sent to Malaysia by manpower placement company PT Sukma Karya Sejati in Cilacap on October 20, 2005.
The efforts had already begun to show results as the proportion of illegal workers in the overall number of Indonesians going abroad to work had dropped, he said here Friday.
"Some time ago, 75 percent of those going abroad to work were illegals but now the number has dropped to 60 percent," Suparno said.
The minister said he had asked regional administrations to select people intending to work abroad tightly and supervise the process of sending them overseas..
"The selection must done carefully to ensure that only legal workers are sent abroad. Thereby, we can decrease the number of illegal workers," he said.
The government was also trying to protect migrant workers through bilateral agreements, working agreements, insurance and legal protection.
"We have concluded cooperation agreements with workers' destination countries so that we can easily solve any problems the workers may meet," he said.
The minister said the government would provide the same protection to legal and illegal workers.
About the murder of Siti Fatonah, a worker from Cilacap, Central Java, in Malaysia , the minister said it as an isolated case.
"We have to consider such problems case by case. The employer did the crime on purpose," he said.
Siti Fatonah was killed on September 12 by her employer, Phoy Yow Yong, in Puchong, Selangor, Malaysia. The suspect was now under investigation by the police.
Her body was flown from Malaysia on September 18 by flight GIA 821 to Jakarta and further to Semarang the next day with flight GIA 230.
The body arrived at Ahmad Yani airport on Friday, September 19 and was received by the minister, Central Java Governor Ali Mufiz and Siti Fatonah's family.
The victim was a legal worker who had been sent to Malaysia by manpower placement company PT Sukma Karya Sejati in Cilacap on October 20, 2005.
