Govt forbids temporarily sending migrant workers to Libya and Egypt

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 03/01/2011

The government has forbidden migrant worker agents to send workers to Libya and Egypt amid the political and security tension in those countries.

“Private employment recruitment agencies will not be allowed to send workers to Libya and Egypt for the time being,” Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said Tuesday in a statement quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

He said the government did not want migrants to become casualties of conflicts in the two countries.

Muhaimin said the government had repatriated four batches of Indonesian migrant workers. The last batch, consisting of 420 migrant workers, was flown home last Monday.