Six overseas offices planned

JAKARTA: The government said on Wednesday it would open labor offices in six more countries in an move to boost protection for Indonesian workers there and settle their problems immediately.

Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Fahmi Idris said these offices would be opened in the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Kuwait and Taiwan.

"The finance ministry and the administrative reform ministry have approved the plans to open labor offices in Hong Kong, Kuwait and the UAE," he told a hearing with the House of Representatives.

Fahmi said the government had recently open similar offices at the Indonesian embassies in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia, where Indonesian workers have often been run into problems with their employers and officials. --Antara