Workers send home Rp 40b per month

Workers send home Rp 40b per month

MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: Indonesian migrant workers have
sent back Rp 253.41 billion (US$26.7 million) to their families
or some Rp 40 billion a month, in the past six months from
January to June.

It was a sharp increase compared to the same period last year,
when the migrant workers sent back between Rp 25 billion to Rp 30
billion a month, said Purnomo Rahardjo, the head of the Manpower
Placement and Service Office in the West Nusa Tenggara province.

The rise was attributed to better worker' protection and
productivity abroad, said Purnomo on Thursday. -- Antara