"We have had smooth and safe sailing so far," Imam Buchori, an official at the Indonesian Workers Data Center of the National Agency for Placement and Protection of Indonesian Workers (BNP2TKI), said through an international telephone call from aboard the ship on Wednesday.
The ship left the Saudi Arabian harbor with 2,349 Indonesian migrant workers (TKI) who had overstayed their visas in the Middle Eastern country.
Among the repatriating workers were 87 expectant women, 169 children and under-five-year-old infants. But since departure from Jeddah, the repatriates had increased in number to 2,351 as two babies were born in the meantime.
Thus, the number of expectant women had dropped to 85 while the number of children and under-five-year-olds had risen to 171.(*)
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Editor: Ruslan Burhani
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