Malaysia stops issuing misused visa to Indonesians

Indonesian displaced person workers as well as their agents frequently injustice the "Journey Performed" visas for work purposes.

JAKARTA: Malaysian authorities have concluded to an Indonesian ask to stop arising the sort of frequently-misused visa in exchange for lifting the moratorium upon displaced person workers roving to the country.

Indonesian Manpower as well as Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar pronounced that Indonesian displaced person workers as well as their agents frequently injustice the "Journey Performed" visas for work purposes.

Misuse of the visa, the sort of bridging visa, leaves workers as bootleg immigrants, making them exposed to threats by human traffickers as well as unscrupulous employers. The complaint has worsened since Indonesia instigated the anathema upon promulgation displaced person workers to Malaysia, with tourism visas being used to disguise true intentions.

"Since the 2009 moratorium, the bent is for increasing injustice of Journey Performed visas as the means to enter Malaysia," Muhaimin pronounced here. "This incident is suspected to be the single means of the increasing series of bootleg immigrants in Malaysia."

He combined that most Indonesian workers who run into problems in Malaysia had entered the nation upon ordinary passports as well as requested the 30-day visa upon arrival.

"Initially they explain they have been upon eighth month in Malaysia. But of march there is no holiday, they're there to work as maids," pronounced Muhaimin.

Indonesians working underneath such entry conditions have been disposed to raids as well as serious criminal sanctions, the hazard of that can be used by people wishing to feat them, the a! pportion explained.

The agreement with Malaysia, reached during the recently concluded Asean assembly in Bali, will come into effect once displaced person workers begin to flow again.

"In accordance with the agreement, the Malaysian supervision will stop to issue JP visas for the purposes of people seeking work, once the Indonesian supervision lifts the moratorium upon promulgation displaced person workers to Malaysia," Muhaimin said.

The make the difference of visas was the single of 11 points concluded between Muhaimin as well as his Malaysian counterpart, Human Resources Minister Dr S Subramaniam.

Other points included wage rates as well as methods of payment, created employment contracts, the guaranteed weekly break, prohibition upon pass confiscation, pre-departure training as well as regulation of recruitment agencies, processes as well as charges.

- Jakarta Globe

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