Minister Of Manpower Ida: Indonesia Is Ready To Implement One Channel PMI Placement In Malaysia

Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziyah. (AMONG)

JAKARTA - The Minister of Manpower (Menaker) Ida Fauziyah said Indonesia is ready to implement the placement of Indonesian migrant workers (PMI) in the domestic sector with a one-channel system if the systems of both countries are ready.

"Of course there is a process that must be carried out in Indonesia as well as in Malaysia. Our system is ready, the Ministry of Manpower is ready, we already have the Sisnaker which has changed to Ready to Work," said Minister of Manpower Ida when met at the Ministry of Manpower Office in Jakarta, reported by Antara, Friday, April 1st.

Met after signing a joint statement with the Malaysian Minister of Resources regarding the Memorandum of Understanding for the Placement and Protection of Domestic Sector PMI in Malaysia, Ida said the Malaysian government needed time to prepare the One Channel System.

Through a memorandum of understanding signed by Indonesia and Malaysia at the State Palace in Jakarta today, it was agreed that the placement of Indonesian domestic workers in the neighboring country through the One Channel Placement System is the only legal channel for recruitment and placement of PMIs in the domestic sector in Malaysia. The system will integrate Indonesia's and Malaysia's online systems. Thus there will be no more direct placements but must go through Indonesian and Malaysian recruitment agencies registered in the system.

"After the system is completed, of course there is a recruitment process that P3MI (PMI Placement Company) must carry out here while Malaysian recruitment agencies also do the same thing," he said.

Ida is optimistic that the process will not run for more than a year because P3MI in the country and the Ministry of Manpower system already have a system ready to do it.*