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68069
Sat, 06/27/2009 - 22:33
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ILO ALERTS GOVT OVER IMPACT OF SUSPENSION
Jember, iNDONESIA, June 27 (ANTARA) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) has asked the Indonesian government to be alert towards possible impact of its decision to suspend the sending of workers to Malaysia as of Friday, June 26, 2009.
"The government must anticipate the socio-economic impact of the decision," ILO national project coordinator A.Y. Bonasahat said after speaking at a seminar on strategy for eradicating human trafficking here on Saturday.
He warned that the suspension could possibly cause increasing entry of illegal workers into Malaysia following the closure of the formal access and also affect would-be workers to Malaysia who were now being accomodated in several centers.
"The government must consider the problems and find the right solution for them so that the political decision would not become a boomerang for Indonesia," he said.
He said several hundreds would-be workers to Malaysia were believed to have already been accomodated in several centers run by the PPTKIS (Private Indonesian Migrant Workers' Placement Implementer) and middlemen had already spent money for taking them to the centers so that the workers could be trapped in debt.
"The middlemen would ask for their money back to the workers that would caused the workers to be trapped into debt," he said.
He said the government also had to monitor access of illegal workers whose number could surpass the legal ones.
"The suspension would not stop illegal workers to continue to go to Malaysia," he said.
He said the government had to make the best regulation possible to protect Indonesian workers in Malaysia to avoid violent cases like the one suffered by Siti Hajar recently and others.
"The government must ratify conventions on migrant workers so that the Indonesian migrant workers have a better bargaining position in countries of destination," he said.
He said the system of recruitment and dispatching in Indonesia also had to be improved. ***
"The government must anticipate the socio-economic impact of the decision," ILO national project coordinator A.Y. Bonasahat said after speaking at a seminar on strategy for eradicating human trafficking here on Saturday.
He warned that the suspension could possibly cause increasing entry of illegal workers into Malaysia following the closure of the formal access and also affect would-be workers to Malaysia who were now being accomodated in several centers.
"The government must consider the problems and find the right solution for them so that the political decision would not become a boomerang for Indonesia," he said.
He said several hundreds would-be workers to Malaysia were believed to have already been accomodated in several centers run by the PPTKIS (Private Indonesian Migrant Workers' Placement Implementer) and middlemen had already spent money for taking them to the centers so that the workers could be trapped in debt.
"The middlemen would ask for their money back to the workers that would caused the workers to be trapped into debt," he said.
He said the government also had to monitor access of illegal workers whose number could surpass the legal ones.
"The suspension would not stop illegal workers to continue to go to Malaysia," he said.
He said the government had to make the best regulation possible to protect Indonesian workers in Malaysia to avoid violent cases like the one suffered by Siti Hajar recently and others.
"The government must ratify conventions on migrant workers so that the Indonesian migrant workers have a better bargaining position in countries of destination," he said.
He said the system of recruitment and dispatching in Indonesia also had to be improved. ***
