Jakarta (Antara) - The National Agency for Placement and Protection of Indonesian Workers Overseas (BNP2TKI) and the House of Representatives (DPR) are committed to ensure best services for Indonesian migrant workers abroad, a legislator said. "We continue to cooperate (with BNP2TKI) in providing best services for the people (migrant workers)," Legislator Endang Syarwan Hamid of the DPR's Commission IX on manpower affairs said in an electronic text message to Antara here on Sunday. Endang has earlier made the statement when delivering a remark during a popularization program of the BNP2TKI entitled "Migrant Workers 2013: Developing the State Together with Migrant Workers" in Sumber Agung Village, Malang District, East Java, on Saturday night. The legislator said that it was not difficult for Indonesian workers to find jobs overseas. "The most important thing for a wife/female is to get a written permission from her husband or parents," he said. He said that the permit must be under the knowledge of the village head so that he or she would know if a member of his or her residents was going to work abroad. After that, he said, the would-be worker should contact the local manpower office to find out a manpower supplier firm PPTKIS. The manpower recruitment agency will later carry out health examinations and work training until the issuance of work competence certificate. In the meantime, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said on Friday that the Indonesian government will tighten the dispatch of migrant workers to other countries as part of efforts to protect them. "We must tighten the dispatch of migrant workers. Illegal immigration must not be allowed. Don't seek employment abroad on the pretext of performing Umrah (minor Hajj) as that will pose a problem in the future," he stated here, on Thursday. (*)


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