Cianjur Manpower And Transmigration Office Asks For Central Assistance In Returning Migrant Workers

Head of the Manpower and Transmigration Office of Cianjur Regency, West Java, Tohari Sastra. (ANTARA/Ahmad Fikri). (Ahmad Fikri)

CIANJUR - The Manpower and Transmigration Office (Disnakertrans) of Cianjur Regency, West Java, requested assistance from the central government and the Saudi Arabian Embassy (KBRI) to help the return of migrant workers from Cianjur. The head of the Cianjur Tohari Sastra Manpower and Transmigration Office said that he had made a letter to the Indonesian Embassy, the Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker), and the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI), to help the return of migrant workers from Cianjur on behalf of Rini, a resident of Hegarsari Village, Sindangbarang District, who was held captive by her employer. "Previously we received a report from the family asking for help in repatriating Rini, who was being held captive by her employer, even though it was not our authority, but in the future we were able to facilitate reporting the incident that happened to Cianjur residents abroad," he said in Cianjur, Antara, Tuesday, August 29. So far, he said, the Cianjur Regency Government has intensified socialization to remote areas for residents who are interested in working abroad to take an official route so that it is easy to monitor when they arrive at the country where they work. Meanwhile, migrant workers who depart illegally receive a lot of inhuman treatment in placement countries and find it difficult to find their whereabouts because they are tempted by the large salaries of sponsors, not even a few who return home in coffins. "The Regent of Cianjur has made a circular for the community through the sub-district head and village head, so that they do not choose the wrong labor service company so that they become victims of the People's Sales Crime (TPPO)," he said. As reported by the family of migrant workers on behalf of Rini (32), a resident of Sukadami Village, Hegarsari Village, Sindangbarang District, received a report regarding the confinement carried out by his employer at the Syarikah Arco Riyadh Office, Saudi Arabia. Rini had sent a video of herself being held captive in the bathroom and asking for help from the Regent of Cianjur and President Joko Widodo to be sent back to Cianjur because he was treated inhumanely, where the video had gone viral in cyberspace.