Six overseas offices planned

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