3 P3MI Allegedly Burdening Excessive Costs To PMI In Hong Kong, BP2MI Threatens To Revoke Permits

Head of BP2MI, Benny Rhamdani (center) in a press conference on the case of overburdening PMI in Jakarta, Friday (16/6/2023). (ANTARA/Zabi Mahrofi)

JAKARTA - The permit for the Indonesian Migrant Worker Placement Company or SIP2MI will be revoked if it is proven to be overloaded or impose excessive costs on Indonesian migrant workers (PMI) in Hong Kong.

Head of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI), Benny Rhamdani, said that his party is currently preparing a mechanism for revocation of SIP2MI in accordance with the authority of BP2MI as stated in Law number 18 of 2017 article 47 letter a point 2, namely issuing and revoking SIP2MI. "BP2MI provides two weeks to P3MI (the company that placements Indonesian migrant workers) to complete the overcharged," he said in Jakarta, Friday, June 16.

Benny added that BP2MI will also send a letter of recommendation to the Ministry of Manpower (Kemenaker) for the revocation of the P3MI or SIP3MI business license if for 14 days or two weeks it does not follow up on the case of overburdening this PMI.

"BP2MI will also report this case as a criminal case to the Indonesian Police," he said.

Benny said that currently there has been an overburdening of costs by P3MI to PMI, especially those working in Hong Kong.

"A total of 68 Indonesian migrant workers from 24 P3MI," he explained.

He revealed that BP2MI had mediated and clarified 17 PMIs from 15 P3MI related to the overcharged case to PMIs in Hong Kong.

Then, as many as 34 PMIs out of 10 P3MIs are in the process of mediation and clarification. Meanwhile, 17 PMIs out of 4 P3MIs, he continued, have not received BP2MI's handling.

Benny said that BP2MI had also written to PT BNI (Persero) not to serve KTA BNI facilities to three P3MIs suspected of excessive financing as long as they were still in the process of resolving the case.

The three P3MIs are PT Dwi Tunggal Jaya Abadi, PT Sukma Karya Sejati, and PT Sumber Tenaga Kerja Pemuda Abadi.