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    "data": {
        "id": 1366249,
        "msgid": "govt-reopens-ri-workers-placement-1447893297",
        "date": "2003-04-22 00:00:00",
        "title": "Govt reopens RI workers placement",
        "author": null,
        "source": "",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Govt reopens RI workers placement JAKARTA: The government said on Monday that it had lifted the ban on the placement of Indonesian workers in the Middle East as of April 1. Director for the Protection and Empowerment of Indonesian Migrant Workers Mardjono said Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Jacob Nuwa Wea had issued an instruction allowing labor recruitment agencies (PJTKIs) to send workers to Middle Eastern countries.",
        "content": "<p>Govt reopens RI workers placement<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA: The government said on Monday that it had lifted the<br>\nban on the placement of Indonesian workers in the Middle East as<br>\nof April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Director for the Protection and Empowerment of Indonesian<br>\nMigrant Workers Mardjono said Minister of Manpower and<br>\nTransmigration Jacob Nuwa Wea had issued an instruction allowing<br>\nlabor recruitment agencies (PJTKIs) to send workers to Middle<br>\nEastern countries.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As long as PJTKIs meet our requirements, for example proper<br>\naccommodation for the workers, they can resume sending workers<br>\noverseas,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Workers should also be able to communicate in the language of<br>\nthe country where they are willing to go, he said.<\/p>\n<p>But the placement of workers to Severe Acute Respiratory<br>\nSyndrome (SARS) affected countries such as Singapore and Hong<br>\nKong is still on hold, said Mardjono.<\/p>\n<p>An association of labor recruitment agencies said earlier it<br>\nhad received a copy of an official letter issued by Minister<br>\nJacob to the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Jakarta that the placement<br>\nof Indonesian workers in Saudi Arabia would resume in May.--JP<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/govt-reopens-ri-workers-placement-1447893297",
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