250 RI workers repatriated from KL

250 RI workers repatriated from KL

PEKANBARU, Riau: Some 250 Indonesian workers have been
repatriated from Malaysia through the nearby port of Dumai each
week for the past two months.

Head of the Dumai immigration office, Taswem Tarib, said a
ship docked in port at least once a week carrying hundreds of
workers.

Dumai has become a transit port for illegal Indonesian workers
deported from Malaysia.

"Soon the port will receive a large scale deportation, but we
don't know exactly when it will happen," Taswem said as quoted by
Antara.

The Malaysian government is currently cracking down on illegal
foreign workers.

The governments of Indonesian and Malaysian have agreed to
cooperate over the repatriation of 17,000 illegal Indonesian
migrant workers in Malaysia.