KL deports hundreds of RI workers

MEDAN: Hundreds of illegal Indonesian workers in plantation and construction projects have flocked North Sumatra province after Malaysia, once again, launched a raid on illegal migrant workers in the country.

"Malaysian police have intensified operations to arrest illegal workers," workers from East Java who had worked in Malaysia for three months said in the North Sumatra port of Belawan on Saturday.

During the past week, some 1,036 illegal Indonesian workers were deported by the Malaysian government to Belawan port in two groups of 442 workers and 594 workers respectively.

Many of the workers admitted that they had worked in the neighboring country for quite a long time, both in plantation and construction projects.

They entered Malaysia through ports in North Sumatra and Riau provinces, and were promised high salaries. --Antara