"Today the Indonesian government officially revoked its moratorium on dispatch of domestic workers to Malaysia. However time will be needed with regard to processing so that realization could only be done early in March, 2012," Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said here on Thursday.
He said the job of sending workers to Malaysia would be fully given to private manpower suppliers (PPTKIS) according to the existing rules.
"The government will only monitor and record all stages of the process," he said.
He said it was hoped within the next three months PPTKIS could prepare the workers with regard to their jobs, recruitment, training and papers better.
He said the government would monitor the sending of workers tightly and evaluate the PPTKIS routinely and optimally and if violations were made sanctions would be given to them from reprimands to revocation of their permits.
"At least 117 PPTKIS have been ready to send domestic workers again to Malaysia. They have signed a contract to implement all points in the agreement put in the amended memorandum of understanding on placement and protection of domestic workers agreed upon by Indonesia and Malaysia," he said.
Muhaimin said before revoking the moratorium Indonesia and Malaysia had conducted several bilateral meetings such as a joint working group forum meeting and a joint task force meeting as preparations for the placement and protection of workers to Malaysia.
The process of sending domestic workers takes 15 stages which have to be followed by the workers and PPTKIS, starting from seeking job orders from Malaysian agencies legalized by the Indonesian representative in Malaysia and permits from the ministry of manpower.
Other process includes recruitment (three weeks), documents preparation (one week), medical check-up (two days), training (200 hours for three to four weeks), passport processing, dispatch of bio-data to Malaysian agencies, seeking employers and others, he said.
So, the whole process would take at least three months and therefore the sending of workers could only be realized as of March 2012, he said.
(T.A043/Uu.H-YH/HAJM/H-YH)
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