Quoting: KuKuKaChuMinistry data show there were 59,577 foreign workers in Indonesia in 2009, down 23.6 percent from 2008 due to the global financial crisis and the rising quality of local labor. I wish this were true. it would save a lot of money having to engage expensive foreign workers.

The rights of outsourced domestic workers will be better protected and the use of foreign workers more closely scrutinized in the wake of last week’s riots at PT Drydocks World Graha’s facility in Batam, Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Muhaimin Iskandar has promised.