BP2MI: Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos Not Recorded As A Country For Placement Of Migrant Workers

Head of the Indonesian Migrant Worker Protection Agency (BP2MI) Benny Rhamdani. BETWEEN A. Pollattan

MANADO - Head of the Indonesian Migrant Worker Protection Agency (BP2MI) Benny Rhamdani said Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos were not the destination countries for placing Indonesian migrant workers.

"Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos trends in the last 2 years, and we want to remind these three countries not to be listed as placement countries," said Benny in Manado as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, May 4.

This means, according to the members of the DPRD of North Sulawesi Province for three terms (19992004, 20042009, and 20092014), if anyone goes to these three countries for reasons of work, it is confirmed to be illegal.

"We witnessed those who had left because they were lured by high salaries, it turned out that they regretted, protested because they did not comply with the promise, they were held captive, the documents were detained by those who departed, by the syndicate," he said.

According to him, thousands of residents have finally been returned to Indonesia, including several residents from North Sulawesi.

"So be careful the offer to work in Laos, Myanmar because in fact they will be employed in the judionline. Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos are not the destination of placement," he asserted.

Benny answered the country's efforts to repatriate workers trapped in Myanmar today.

"This country is great, meaning like this, the country's highest law is the safety of citizens. When a citizen gets into trouble abroad, for example, even after being tracked they leave unofficially, the state takes over to save them," he explained.

The step taken to repatriate Indonesian citizens who are still detained in Myanmar is to discuss with local state authorities, the two evacuations, the three were placed, protected by the Indonesian Embassy.

"The process of their return is financed by the state. When they arrived in Indonesia, their duties were transferred to BP2MI," he said.