RI workers on strike in Malaysia<\/p>\n
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuter): More than 500 Indonesians detained for
\nillegally entering Malaysia were on a hunger strike yesterday
\ndemanding quick deportation home, police said.<\/p>\n
The protesters, part of some 1,000 illegals at the Kemayan
\nimmigration detention camp in the eastern state of Pahang, have
\ngone without food and water since early on Monday, police said.<\/p>\n
\"They are still on hunger strike,\" a senior Pahang police
\nofficial told Reuters by telephone. He did not elaborate.<\/p>\n
Pahang police and other officials were meeting yesterday to
\nfind a solution to the problem, police sources said.<\/p>\n
\"The situation is under control and they are still calm,\" a
\npolice source said.<\/p>\n
The New Straits Times daily said some of the immigrants were
\nbelieved to have been detained for more than five months.<\/p>\n
Booming Malaysia has been a magnet for foreign workers from
\npoorer neighboring countries.<\/p>\n
More than 1.2 million foreign workers are employed in the
\nlabor-starved country, which has a population of 20 million
\npeople, including several hundred thousand employed illegally.<\/p>\n
The Malaysian government said late last year that 71 people
\nhad died since 1991 in immigration detention centers.<\/p>\n
Activist groups said the deaths were a result of poor food and
\nconditions at the camps. The government said most of the victims
\nwere already very sick when they were detained.<\/p>",
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