China Dominates 3,200 Foreign Workers Working In Southeast Sulawesi

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Southeast Sulawesi Manpower and Transmigration Service (Disnakertrans) said that currently there are 3,200 foreign workers (TKA) working for a number of mining companies in the area.

The head of the La Ode Southeast Sulawesi Manpower and Transmigration Agency Muhammad Ali Haswandy said that the majority of the thousands of foreign workers who came to work in Southeast Sulawesi were from China.

"The data on foreign workers in Southeast Sulawesi as of December 2021 has recorded approximately 3,200 people, dominated by Chinese origin," he said, quoted from Antara, Thursday, February 3.

He said that the thousands of foreign workers mostly work in the nickel refining mega industrial area in Morosi District, Konawe Regency, Southeast Sulawesi.

"Most of them are PT Obsidian Stainless Steel or OSS and PT Virtue Dragon Nickel Industry or VDNI which operate in Konawe with several companies in Southeast Sulawesi," he said.

The Department of Manpower and Transmigration of Southeast Sulawesi ensures that these foreign workers work for a maximum of six months in accordance with their bagged immigration permits.

"Six months they worked in accordance with the permits they had pocketed and then they returned to their respective countries," said Ali Haswandy.