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