Migrant worker's

Migrant worker's
extortion claim

From Media Indonesia

Two Indonesian labor recruitment companies, PT Hasta Insan
Perkasa and PT Duta Fajar Barutama, both domiciled in Jakarta,
sent me to work in Taiwan and I paid them a placement fee of some
Rp 20 million. Unfortunately, the two companies manipulated the
result of my health test at Li Shin Hospital in Taiwan and used
it as a reason to force me to return to Indonesia without a
refund.

I complained to the manpower and transmigration minister about
this fraudulent behavior and on March 12, 2003, I signed an
agreement with these companies in the presence of a staff member
of the ministry's directorate general of development and
placement of migrant workers, who mediated our meeting.
Afterwards, the labor recruitment companies violated the
agreement but, absurdly, for the ministry, the matter was
considered closed.

Dissatisfied, I reported the health test result manipulation
to Taiwanese manpower and health ministers and also to the Taiwan
police chief. The Taiwanese manpower ministry issued a letter
dated Feb. 26, 2004, saying that this case was being handled by
the Taiwanese health minister.

Then, Tao Yuan carried out a reexamination of my health status
at Li Shin Hospital and gave the result, on June 18, 2003, to the
Indonesian Chamber of Trade and the Economy (KDEI) in Taipei, to
be forwarded to me. Inexplicably, the KDEI has not forwarded this
result to me.

I suspect that this is an organized case of fraud and
extortion because all parties involved do not seem to be willing
to resolve the matter properly. Strangely, the photocopy of the
laboratory test as part of my health check does not bear my name.

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