Currently there are 12 more people in the shelter, waiting for repatriation."Cairo (ANTARA News) - The condition of hundreds of Indonesian female migrant workers in Egypt is still unknown as they had never reported their presence to the Indonesian embassy in Cairo, a diplomat said.
"We do not know the number of Indonesian female migrant workers here. However, the Egyptian government suspects that the number is higher than the workers who have reported their presence in the country," said Chief of the Indonesian Embassy`s Protocol and Consular Nugroho Yuwono Aribhimo in an interview with Antara here, Sunday.
He said the official data showed that there were around 1,300 Indonesian female migrant workers in Egypt, mostly in Cairo City.
"At least 40 percent of them went to the Indonesian embassy when they have problems with their employers. The embassy has accommodated some of them and repatriated 100 workers at the average annually," Yuwono said.
The embassy has repatriated at least 20 migrant workers over the last six months as their employers refused to be responsible for their condition.
"Currently there are 12 more people in the shelter, waiting for repatriation," Yuwono said.
The Indonesian embassy has made contacts intensively with several migrant workers amid the riot currently erupting in Egypt, particularly with those living near Tahrir Square of Cairo and Rabiah Adawiyah Square of Iskandariyah.
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