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The Jakarta Post (http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20020218)
A controversial crackdown on the hiring of Indonesian workers in Malaysia is expected to dominate a meeting of ministers from the two countries in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.
Malaysia was angered by a riot by 400 Indonesian textile workers at their factory over police drug tests on co-workers on Jan. 17. Three days later, more than 70 Indonesian construction workers armed with machetes went on a rampage in a suburb south of Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia initially announced a temporary ban on the hiring of new Indonesian workers and said it would halve the number already in the country. But the government later said Indonesians would be hired only as maids and plantation workers and it would look to Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, Myanmar, Laos, the Philippines and India to fill positions in other sectors.
Indonesians make up 566,983 out of a total of 769,566 legal foreign workers in Malaysia.
Posted on 2002-02-25
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