Ministers to meet on migrant workers

Ministers to meet on migrant workers

JAKARTA: Labor ministers from nine countries will gather in Bali
on Sept. 20-21 for the third annual meeting to discuss the issue
of migrant workers.

Ministers from seven labor-exporting countries including
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri
Lanka, and Indonesia will meet with their counterparts from the
United Arab Emirates and Italy, recipients of some of the migrant
workers from the developing.

Meanwhile, other recipient countries such as Malaysia, Qatar,
Bahrain and Saudi Arabia will be represented by senior officials,
spokesman of the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration Joko
Mulyanto said on Monday.

He said that the meeting would be sponsored by the
International Organization for Migration (IOM). -- Antara