But it is difficult for the victim`s family to have death insurance because there was no document or passport indicating that Sarminto was a migrant worker in MalaysiaNgawi, E Java (ANTARA News) - An illegal Indonesian migrant worker, identified as Sarminto (33) from Ngawi, East Java, died in a workplace accident in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
"Sarminto had been working in Malaysia illegally because he did not have an official recommendation from the local Manpower Office to the Migrant Workers Placement Company (PJTKI)," the head of the Ngawi transmigration, social, and manpower office, Siswadi, said here on Thursday.
He said while working at a construction site, Sarminto fell to his death from a factory building on Janury 14, 2011.
Sarminto`s remains arrived at his home village in Nagwi on Wednesday, January 19 for burial.
"But it is difficult for the victim`s family to have death insurance because there was no document or passport indicating that Sarminto was a migrant worker in Malaysia," Siswadi said.
Sarminto`s death was the second in less than a week after a migrant worker, Supardi (42) from Jember, East Java, also died in Malaysia earlier on Tuesday, January 11, 2011.
Jember branch of Indonesian Migrant Workers` Union chairman Ahmad Mufti said in Jember last Friday that Supardi also fell to his death from the second floor of a building where he worked.
"Supardi fell to his death from the second floor of a building in Malaysia at 4 on Tuesday afternoon Malaysian time, January 11, 2011," Ahmad Mufti said.
He said the remains of Supardi arrived in Jember on Surabaya, January 15.(*)
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