Women migrant workers

Women migrant workers

From Koran Tempo

Mine is one of a great number of families whose have had members sent abroad through PT Baham Putra Abadi (BPA), a manpower recruitment company located at Jl. Cipinang Muara Raya No. 4. I require an explanation about how the women migrant workers are sent to Saudi Arabia.

Do they have to stay in a particular place to wait for the people they will work for, or are they sent to Saudi Arabia because there are already people there who they will work for?

I need this information because it is the first time that a member of my family has been sent abroad as a migrant worker?

The recruitment company told would-be migrant workers that, in the first three months, they could not have any contact with their families in Indonesia (by phone or by mail). This may be acceptable to the migrant workers but not the families back home. I, for one, will be curious about what will be happening to this member of my family in the first three months of her stay in Saudi Arabia.

To alleviate the worries of the families left at home, it would be a good idea for PT BPA, as the manpower recruitment company concerned, to put up a list of the addresses where the migrant workers are employed during the three-month period in which no contact may be established between the families and the migrant workers.

Bonari

Madiun, East Java