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        "id": 1223924,
        "msgid": "govt-chided-over-labor-protection-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-11-04 00:00:00",
        "title": "Govt chided over labor protection",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Govt chided over labor protection JAKARTA: Labor activists slammed the government on Saturday for dragging its feet in establishing labor protection offices overseas to help Indonesian workers there. \"Indonesian workers overseas are facing increasingly complicated problems. We support calls to open more labor offices overseas,\" Yunus Yamani, executive director of the Indonesian Overseas Worker Law Protection Agency (BPHTKLN), said on Saturday.",
        "content": "<p>Govt chided over labor protection<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA: Labor activists slammed the government on Saturday<br>\nfor dragging its feet in establishing labor protection offices<br>\noverseas to help Indonesian workers there.<\/p>\n<p>\"Indonesian workers overseas are facing increasingly<br>\ncomplicated problems. We support calls to open more labor offices<br>\noverseas,\" Yunus Yamani, executive director of the Indonesian<br>\nOverseas Worker Law Protection Agency (BPHTKLN), said on<br>\nSaturday.<\/p>\n<p>He cited, for example, the cases of 364 Indonesian workers in<br>\nMiddle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The<br>\nworkers, he said, were in dire need of assistance to cope with<br>\nproblems they were facing. He did not disclose the problems faced<br>\nby workers there.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Manpower and Transmigration Jacob Nuwa Wea had<br>\nreportedly urged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to open eight<br>\nmore labor offices overseas, but the ministry had only opened two<br>\n-- one in Kuala Lumpur and the other in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. --<br>\nAntara<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/govt-chided-over-labor-protection-1447893297",
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    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
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