"A moratorium policy is the same as a temporary suspension on sending of special migrant workers from NTT, and during the moratorium, we will streamline the administration of migrant workers," NTT Manpower and Transmigration Office Chief Bruno Kupok remarked here on Tuesday regarding the TKI moratorium policy from the province.
In the meantime, NTT Governor Viktor Bungtilu Laiskodat, who was recently sworn in on Sept. 5 in Jakarta, said he will conduct a moratorium on the sending of TKIs from East Nusa Tenggara.
He stated that the governance of sending TKIs to be addressed is the recruitment process of prospective migrant workers.
During this time, companies were allowed to recruit migrant workers directly from villages, and this permission was then misused by brokers to recruit illegal TKIs.
In future, the company will only accept migrant workers from the government that have received training and are ready to be sent abroad, according to the local Manpower and Transmigration Office chief.
"Hence, the first area to be addressed is the procedure for recruiting prospective migrant workers. Companies are no longer allowed to recruit directly from villages, so candidates do not have the space to go down to villages in the name of companies shipping Indonesian migrant workers," Kupok remarked.
Another aspect that must be addressed is the skill-based training of workers, who will be sent abroad.
He noted that during this time, Indonesian labor migrants must undergo training in Java, and it creates complex social problems, such as rape, confinement, and access to prospective migrant workers.
In connection with this training, the NTT government is struggling to build an overseas labor training center, which will later function to train prospective migrant workers.
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Reporting by Bernadus Tokan
Editing by Otniel, Bustanuddin
Reporter: Antara
Editor: Fardah Assegaf
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