Foreign Workers Who Work In Malut Are Given The Socialization Of The Ciptaker Law

Thousands of Foreign Workers while in North Maluku (Abdul Fatah)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenumham) of North Maluku (Malut) held a socialization of regulations in Indonesia for foreign workers (TKA) who work in the mining sector there.

"In addition, we have to balance the treatment of foreigners, especially in the investment sector, so that foreigners understand and understand the applicable regulations," said Head of the Immigration Division of the North Maluku Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Sandi Andaryana in Ternate, Friday, 21 night.

He said that socialization, education and optimization of foreign workers is important so that they obey and comply with the rules stipulated while in North Maluku, such as the supervision contained in Law (UU) Number 6 of 2011 concerning Immigration, has been partially changed in Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation.

"As we know that in North Maluku, there is quite a lot of professions with the concentration of foreigners in the mining sector, as in the Obi Weda (IWIP), Morotai, and others, this requires socialization and education from the Timpora so that they know very well the rules rules while in North Maluku," Sandi said as quoted by Antara.

From the data pocketed by North Maluku Immigration in several mining companies, there are approximately 6 thousand foreign workers. Three thousand people are in PT IWIP and the rest are in several other companies.

"Foreigners are close to six thousand, from limited stay permit holders in carrying out activities in North Maluku, such as in IWIP there are approximately three thousand, yes, plus there are Harita Nickel, Site Haul Sagu (PT. Wanatiara Persada) and other mining companies," he said.

Sandi hopes that the socialization that will be carried out by foreign workers in North Maluku will become an understanding of the rules that have an impact on compliance so that the level of violations will decrease.

"So it must be balanced, yes, it must be socialized first and educated later if there is a mistake we can convey it and have been conveyed and socialized, why are we still violating it, then we will act," explained Sandi.

Bearing in mind, foreigners in North Maluku work in the mining sector as in PT. Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park (IWIP) in Central Halmahera (Halteng) Regency and PT Harita Nickel in the southern part of South Halmahera Regency (Halsel) on Obi Island.

In fact, after the North Maluku provincial Timpora consisting of a combination of stakeholders at the North Maluku provincial level who have the task and function of monitoring the existence of foreign activities in North Maluku.