Govt to withdraw workers from Middle Eastern countries

The Jakarta Post | Mon, 11/02/2009 7:53 PM

The Manpower and Transmigration Ministry will withdraw thousands of workers working in Middle Eastern countries following unpaid salary and torture cases involving the employees in the near future.

Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said Monday that his office would withdraw 1,750 migrant workers in Kuwait, Jeddah and Jordan.

“We will send special planes to pick them up on Nov. 9. We will then close down the workers supply office in Kuwait,” Muhamin told Antara state news agency Monday in Sleman, Yogyakarta.

He added that those who would return home were the victims of violence from their own employers and living in such low qualified standard of lives.

“We are focusing to improve our system in recruiting the workers and ensuring their protection in the countries they work in,” he said. (ewd)