Task force hosts illegal TKI

Task force hosts illegal TKI

NUNUKAN, East Kalimantan: The Nunukan administration in East
Kalimantan province has accommodated since last October some 100
East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) migrant workers (TKI) who were deported
by Malaysian authorities because they had no proper immigration
documents.

Head of the Nunukan TKI task force Kasmir Foret said recently
that the workers were being accommodated by residents around
Nunukan, which is located near the Malaysian border town of
Tawao.

"They were deported because they had no proper documents. We
believed they had not used official passage, because if they had,
Nunukan immigration should have their data," he said.

The TKI task force had offered them two options: to return to
their hometowns or to try again to work in Malaysia. If they
chose the latter, the local government would train them in skills
needed by companies in the neighboring country.

The East Nusa Tenggara workers are not the only group being
accommodated by the TKI task force. The task force has also
accommodated migrant workers from various parts of Indonesia who
have either returned to their hometowns or were provided skills
training courses. -- JP