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RI-MALAYSIA TALKS NEEDED ON MIGRANT WORKERS DISPATCH MORATORIUM
Jakarta, July 29 (ANTARA) - Indonesia and Malaysia need to meet and discuss the moratorium on the dispatch of Indonesian workers to Malaysia, a minister here said.
"We need to sit at one table with Malaysia to discuss the rights for Indonesian nationals to get better protection in Malaysia," Foreign Affairs Minister Hassan Wirayuda said here on Wednesday.
The Malaysian side at a meeting with an Indonesian delegation led by Manpower and Transmigration Minister Erman Suparno, at Putra Jaya in Selangor early this month, asked the Indonesian government to revoke the moratorium because the number of violent acts against the country's migrant workers in Malaysia was only 0.05 percent.
But Wirayuda was of the opinion that the moratorium was appropriate to persuade Malaysia and other countries to pay greater attention to problems faced by Indonesian migrant workers in those countries.
The foreign affairs minister said the moratorium should not be changed arbitrarily because doing so would not help to overcome the problems.
Head of the National Agency for Placement and Protection of Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI), Moh Jumhur Hidayat, said recently that the moratorium should not be revoked until the Malaysian government had agreed to Indonesia's proposal to revise a memorandum of understanding on Indonesian migrant workers.
"We don't want to victimize our people for the sake of foreign exchange because we want them to work with their rights well protected," Jumhur said.
Meanwhile, in a text message from Amman, Jordan, on Wednesday, Jumhur Hidayat said Indonesian migrant workers should be protected since before and after they had left for their overseas jobs.
Jumhur Hidayat was in Amman to lead a coordination meeting on the placement and protection of Indonesian workers in various Middle East countries.
"Pre-departure problems are the main factors in the difficulties many Indonesian migrant workers face abroad," he said.
"We need to sit at one table with Malaysia to discuss the rights for Indonesian nationals to get better protection in Malaysia," Foreign Affairs Minister Hassan Wirayuda said here on Wednesday.
The Malaysian side at a meeting with an Indonesian delegation led by Manpower and Transmigration Minister Erman Suparno, at Putra Jaya in Selangor early this month, asked the Indonesian government to revoke the moratorium because the number of violent acts against the country's migrant workers in Malaysia was only 0.05 percent.
But Wirayuda was of the opinion that the moratorium was appropriate to persuade Malaysia and other countries to pay greater attention to problems faced by Indonesian migrant workers in those countries.
The foreign affairs minister said the moratorium should not be changed arbitrarily because doing so would not help to overcome the problems.
Head of the National Agency for Placement and Protection of Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI), Moh Jumhur Hidayat, said recently that the moratorium should not be revoked until the Malaysian government had agreed to Indonesia's proposal to revise a memorandum of understanding on Indonesian migrant workers.
"We don't want to victimize our people for the sake of foreign exchange because we want them to work with their rights well protected," Jumhur said.
Meanwhile, in a text message from Amman, Jordan, on Wednesday, Jumhur Hidayat said Indonesian migrant workers should be protected since before and after they had left for their overseas jobs.
Jumhur Hidayat was in Amman to lead a coordination meeting on the placement and protection of Indonesian workers in various Middle East countries.
"Pre-departure problems are the main factors in the difficulties many Indonesian migrant workers face abroad," he said.
