Malaysia to deport 110,000 illegal migrant workers<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Malaysian authorities will gradually deport a
\ntotal of 110,000 Indonesian workers illegally working in the
\ncountry in the coming months.<\/p>\n
Vivi Aryanti Pancaweda, director of labor protection at the
\nMinistry of Manpower and Transmigration, said on Friday that the
\nworkers currently in detention camps in Malaysia would be
\ndeported in phases.<\/p>\n
\"Malaysia and Indonesia have agreed to share the cost of the
\ndeportation and Tjepy F. Aloewi, director general of labor
\nplacement at the ministry, is leaving for Kuala Lumpur to
\nascertain how the illegal workers will be repatriated,\" she told
\nThe Jakarta Post by telephone.<\/p>\n
Around 2,500 people were returned to Indonesia last week, in
\nthe first phase of deportation, on Indonesian ferries via the
\nBelawan seaport in North Sumatra. The second phase would be
\nconducted before the Idul Fitri holiday and the third phase in
\nJanuary.<\/p>\n
\"Those illegal migrant workers to be deported before the Idul
\nFitri holiday will be transported by several Navy's warships,\"
\nshe said.<\/p>\n
An estimated 600,000 Indonesians work in numerous sectors in
\nMalaysia of which close to half of them are believed to have
\nentered the country illegally.<\/p>\n
Sanctions<\/p>\n
Separately, Tjepy said the Ministry of Manpower and
\nTransmigration would make a list of violations committed by labor
\nexporters this year before imposing sanctions on them.<\/p>\n
\"More than 200 labor export companies have been found guilty
\nof ignoring the more than 650 troubled workers in Saudi Arabia,
\nKuwait and Abu Dhabi and several other companies have extorted
\nworkers whom they had sent to Taiwan,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He warned that all violations would be noted and companies
\nwith major violations would no longer be allowed to operate.<\/p>\n
\"The revocation of licenses is the maximum penalty permitted
\nby the 1999 ministerial decree on labor export,\" he said, adding
\nthat so far, the government had never imposed the maximum penalty
\non companies committing violations.<\/p>\n
This year Indonesia exported a total of 376,451 workers to
\neight countries and recorded a total remittance of Rp 9.4
\ntrillion (US$990 million).<\/p>\n
The workers' were sent to Malaysia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
\nUnited Arab Emirates, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong
\nKong. (rms)<\/p>",
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