ID :
48195
Sat, 02/28/2009 - 12:58
Auther :
Shortlink :
https://www.oananews.org//node/48195
The shortlink copeid
SOME 500 NTB WORKERS TO LEAVE FOR MALAYSIA
Mataram, W Nusa Tenggara, Feb 27 (ANTARA) - A total of 500 workers of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) province would leave for Malaysia on March 3 to work in oil palm plantations there after they joined a short training.
NTB governor M. Zainul Majdi on Friday officially saw off the migrant workers, who would be sent to the neighboring country under the coordination of PT. Jasatama Widya Perkasa (JWP), manpower private company supplier.
The workers hailing from Lombok Island, who would work at the Felda Plantation SDN Bhd, would depart to Malaysia by Garuda Indonesia and Merpati.
"I hope none of the workers involves in criminal act in Malaysia, they should maintain the country's good image and work hard, in a bid to improve their standard of living," the governor said.
In the meantime, president commissioner of PT JWP NTB Muhammad Nur Said Kasdiono said the local administration had engaged in a cooperation with the state-owned bank BNI in case of remitting the workers' money to their families in NTB.
According to Kasdiono, so far the amount of remittance from NTB's migrant workers to the province reached about Rp600 billion per year.
To date, some 300 thousand migrant workers of NTB have been working in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.
In 2008, the amount of NTB's migrant workers abroad reached 52 thousand, most of them in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.
People in West Nusa Tenggara had a keen interest in working abroad, that is why the Mataram immigration office is practically every day packed with hundreds of passport applicants. ***3***
(B003/B/H-NG/B003).
NTB governor M. Zainul Majdi on Friday officially saw off the migrant workers, who would be sent to the neighboring country under the coordination of PT. Jasatama Widya Perkasa (JWP), manpower private company supplier.
The workers hailing from Lombok Island, who would work at the Felda Plantation SDN Bhd, would depart to Malaysia by Garuda Indonesia and Merpati.
"I hope none of the workers involves in criminal act in Malaysia, they should maintain the country's good image and work hard, in a bid to improve their standard of living," the governor said.
In the meantime, president commissioner of PT JWP NTB Muhammad Nur Said Kasdiono said the local administration had engaged in a cooperation with the state-owned bank BNI in case of remitting the workers' money to their families in NTB.
According to Kasdiono, so far the amount of remittance from NTB's migrant workers to the province reached about Rp600 billion per year.
To date, some 300 thousand migrant workers of NTB have been working in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.
In 2008, the amount of NTB's migrant workers abroad reached 52 thousand, most of them in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.
People in West Nusa Tenggara had a keen interest in working abroad, that is why the Mataram immigration office is practically every day packed with hundreds of passport applicants. ***3***
(B003/B/H-NG/B003).
