New terminal for migrant workers

New terminal for migrant workers

JAKARTA: In a bid to improve the quality of service for migrant workers, a new terminal is being built and will be ready for use at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport later this year.

The new facility will enable migrant workers to go straight to their hometowns.

The regular Terminal III, where extortion of home-coming migrant workers is rampant, will be used for other interests by the airport management PT Angkasa Pura.

Director of labor protection at the ministry of manpower and transmigration, Mardjono, said on Monday that the new terminal would cost the government around Rp 70 billion (US$7.2 million).

As part of the improvement in services for the workers, the government has also cut transportation fees from the Terminal III to their hometowns by 11 percent as of Monday. Following the reduction, a migrant worker leaving for Bima on Lombok Island now will pay Rp 585,000. -- Antara