Prabowo Agrees That The Moratorium On Indonesian Workers To Saudi Arabia Will Be Revoked, KemenP2MI Is Ready To Send 600,000 Migrant Workers

Minister of Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (P2MI) Abdul Kadir Karding. (doc KemenP2MI)

JAKATRTA - The Ministry of Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (KemenP2MI) immediately sent around 600,000 migrant workers to Saudi Arabia after the moratorium on the placement of workers to Middle Eastern countries was lifted.

The plan to send the migrant workers was conveyed by the Minister of Protection for Indonesian Migrant Workers (P2MI) Abdul Kadir Karding after meeting with President Prabowo at the Presidential Palace, Jakarta, Friday, March 14.

"We will open this and we, the ministry, have held talks and negotiations with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Affairs, in this case the Ministry of Labor of Saudi Arabia, to discuss the reopening," said Minister Karding, confiscated by Antara.

Minister Karding detailed that the shipment of 600 thousand workers to Saudi Arabia consisted of 400,000 domestic workers in the household environment and while the other 200 thousand people were formal workers.

The sending of Indonesian migrant workers will be ratified through a memorandum of understanding signed by the Government of Indonesia and Saudi Arabia in the near future in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Then for the initial departure of Indonesian migrant workers to Saudi Arabia, starting in June 2025 with a quota that will later be adjusted from the Government of Indonesia.

Presiden Prabowo Subianto, usai mendapatkan laporan ini, juga menyetujui pembukaan moratorium pengiriman pekerja migran Indonesia ke Arab Saudi dan meminta untuk disiapkan skema pelatihan untuk pekerja.

"Alhamdulillah, he agreed and asked us to prepare the training scheme as well as the placement later. We will report back to him the plans that we have prepared," said Minister Karding.

The moratorium on the placement of Indonesian migrant workers to Saudi Arabia has been carried out by the Government of Indonesia since 2015 until now.

The moratorium policy is due to the smuggling of at least 25,000 workers every year who go to Saudi Arabia illegally or non-procedurally.