Economy & Business

No Licenses to Send Workers to the Middle East
16 Desember 2003

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Indonesia has revoked licenses to send workers to Middle East countries, including United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman.

“These countries did not sign the MoU on workers protection,” Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Jacob Nuwa Wea told TEMPO News Room on Tuesday (16/12).

In January this year, Nuwa Wea stopped sending Indonesian workers to all countries that did not sign the MoU.

However, Jordan and Kuwait then followed Malaysia in signing the MoU on workers protection so that the government sending workers again to the two countries.

Unfortunately, other countries did not sign the MoU.

“[The government] must stop sending workers abroad, because it is not only the country that sends workers [Indonesia] that has to protect them, but also the country that accepts them,” Nuwa Wea said.

In addition, workers that will work abroad have to pass competence tests.

“The problem is there are some Indonesian Labor Enterprises that make fake data. And worse than that, the countries accept illegal workers because they are underpaid,” Nuwa Wea said.


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