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JAKARTA: Malaysia will explore the possibility of having a Foreign Workers Act to manage the four million foreign workers in the country.
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz said with the foreign workers making up more than 10% of the country's population, the management of their affairs could no longer be carried out at ad hoc level.
"I personally believe that we need to have the law (Foreign Workers Act). Currently, we tackle issues when they cropped up," he said when met here Thursday.
Nazri, who is leading the Malaysian delegation of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, is on a three-day visit here.
Earlier, he met the Speaker of the Indonesia's People's Consultative Council (MPR), at his residence in Menteng, Central Jakarta.
Also in the delegation are Dewan Rakyat deputy speaker Datuk Ronald Kiandee and Balik Pulau MP Mohd Yusmadi Mohd Yusoff.
Nazri, who is the minister in-charge of law and parliamentary affairs, said Malaysia had to deal with not only workers from Indonesia, but also from several other countries.
"So we must look at the experience of other countries, like the gulf states where the foreign population is more than the locals," he added.
He said resolving foreign workers' problems, like introducing the regulation on minimum salary, but not involving domestic helpers, was discriminatory.
The regulation should cover all jobs, he added.
Nazri said the proposed formulation of the foreign workers act would be discussed by the Malaysia-Indonesia Parliamentary Caucus (KPMI), which he believed would also be able to play an effective role in forging closer relations between the Malaysian and Indonesia parliamentary members. - Bernama
JAKARTA: Malaysia will explore the possibility of having a Foreign Workers Act to manage the four million foreign workers in the country.
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz said with the foreign workers making up more than 10% of the country's population, the management of their affairs could no longer be carried out at ad hoc level.
"I personally believe that we need to have the law (Foreign Workers Act). Currently, we tackle issues when they cropped up," he said when met here Thursday.
Nazri, who is leading the Malaysian delegation of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, is on a three-day visit here.
Earlier, he met the Speaker of the Indonesia's People's Consultative Council (MPR), at his residence in Menteng, Central Jakarta.
Also in the delegation are Dewan Rakyat deputy speaker Datuk Ronald Kiandee and Balik Pulau MP Mohd Yusmadi Mohd Yusoff.
Nazri, who is the minister in-charge of law and parliamentary affairs, said Malaysia had to deal with not only workers from Indonesia, but also from several other countries.
"So we must look at the experience of other countries, like the gulf states where the foreign population is more than the locals," he added.
He said resolving foreign workers' problems, like introducing the regulation on minimum salary, but not involving domestic helpers, was discriminatory.
The regulation should cover all jobs, he added.
Nazri said the proposed formulation of the foreign workers act would be discussed by the Malaysia-Indonesia Parliamentary Caucus (KPMI), which he believed would also be able to play an effective role in forging closer relations between the Malaysian and Indonesia parliamentary members. - Bernama
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