"The Philippines in its efforts to protect its migrant workers overseas signs a memorandum of understanding with the destination country," Hidayat Nur Wahid said here on Saturday.
He was speaking to ANTARA after attending a seminar on "Islam Talks About Radicalism" organized by the Indonesian Islamic Propagators Association (Ikadi).
Wahid said that in sending its workers the Philippines required employers to provide their clear addresses, salaries they would pay and contact number that could be contacted.
"All these important data should be handed over to the Philippine embassies in the recipient countries concerned so that the workers would really be safe and could be controlled directly," the legislator said.
Apart from that, would-be workers are not directly placed but they are first accompanied by embassy staffs to ascertain whether they are employed based on agreements.
"This steps could be followed by Indonesia so that we have valid data on the presence of and placement of Indonesian migrant workers," he said.(*)
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Editor: Ruslan Burhani
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