"The number of Indonesian workers in South Korea is large, reaching 31,000, so that it is just quite good if they form societies," Jumhur, who is head of the National Agency for Placement and Protection of Indonesian Workers Overseas (BNP2TKI) said in Seoul through an e-mail message to ANTARA on Sunday.
Indonesian workers in South Korea have set up regional origin-based societies in a number of South Korean cities since the placement of Indonesian workers in that country on the Indonesia-South Korea government-to-government program in 2004.
They have also set up an Indonesian Community in 2006 which grouped 18 societies formed based on their respective regions in Indonesia.
Jumhur said that the Indonesian Community in South Korea which overseas various Indonesian societies could serve as Indonesia Incorporated overseas.
"This is the way we build an Indonesia Incorporated through the presence of Indonesian migrant workers in various countries," he said.
Jumhur is on a visit to South Korea handling the problem of Indonesian workers who have overstayed in that country. There are now 2,900 overstayers and 13,000 others have had their work contracts expired. (*)
(A014/H-NG/a014)
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