Apjati to hold congress

Apjati to hold congress

JAKARTA (JP): The Association of Labor Export Companies
(Apjati) plans to hold an extraordinary congress later this month
to revamp the association and review labor export procedures.

A congress was not planned until 2002, but due to complicated
problems within the association and labor export procedures an
extraordinary meeting will be held in Bogor, West Java, from May
23 to May 25.

Abdulla Umar, the Apjati chairman, said on Wednesday that all
375 labor exporters grouped in the association would be invited
to attend the congress in order to evaluate weaknesses in the
organization and in labor export procedures.

The congress' participants as well as the government will also
evaluate all government rulings that are considered to hamper
labor exports, he said.

"During the congress, participants and the government are
expected to agree upon the standard quality of workers sent
overseas and standard protection for them to minimize problems
Indonesian workers will face," he said. (rms)