The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 05/28/2011
Head of the Indonesian Workers Placement and Protection Agency (BNP2TKI) Moh Jumhur Hidayat said the high officials meeting between the Indonesian and Saudi governments on Indonesian migrant workers (TKI) was the very first of its kind.
“This is a historical event. It is the first time that a high officials meeting was held to discuss the TKI problems,” he said, antaranews.com reported on Saturday.
Jumhur and a number of members of the Indonesian delegation arrived in Dubai in transit on their flight to Jeddah for the RI-Saudi high officials meeting on TKIs on May 28 and 29.
Jumhur was at the head of an Indonesian government delegation for the high officials meeting to discuss the problem of TKIs with a Saudi government delegation led by Manpower Minister Adel Mohammad Fakeih.
Jumhur said that the high officials meeting will discuss improvement in the placement and protection of TKIs in Saudi Arabia.
Jumhur believed that, with the reception of the BNP2TKI chief and entourage by the Saudi Manpower Minister, shows that the Saudi government has a strong commitment to improve the outlook for the TKIs.
He said the number of TKIs in Saudi Arabia has reached 1.5 million, 90 percent of whom work in the informal sector as household personnel or personal drivers for their employers.
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