Muhaimin Iskandar appealed to the Members of the company's businesses private placement Indonesia (PPTKIS) must participate tackle human trafficking and illegal migrants.

Muhaimin Iskandar  by republika

 Muhaimin Iskandar appealed to the Members of the company's businesses private placement Indonesia (PPTKIS) must participate tackle human trafficking and illegal migrants.



Minister of Manpower and Transmigration (minister) Muhaimin Iskandar appealed to the Members of the company's businesses private placement Indonesia (PPTKIS) must participate tackle human trafficking and illegal migrants.

"Synergies with PPTKIS be done to overcome the problems in the placement and protection of overseas workers," said the minister Muhaimin Iskandar after receiving the board of the Association of Workforce Services Indonessia (APJATI) in the period from 2012 to 2016 in the Office Kemnakertrans, Jakarta, on Thursday.

The meeting was attended by Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Manpower Services (APJATI) Job Basalamah and Binapenta Kemnakertrans Reyna Usman Director General and Special Staff of the Minister Abdul Wahid Maktub.

While the importance of synergy to address the problem of human trafficking and the illegal migrants were said Muhaimin because these things are detrimental to all parties, from PPTKIS related, government and workers.

"We continue to cultivate the awareness of prospective migrant workers to better work using the company's workers were authorized. When using the normal channel in sending workers abroad, then there will be a responsible if anything happens there," said Iskandar.

During this time, the workers who leave illegally proven difficulty in solving the case, although the workers were in the right.

"I mentioned now in the so-called` emergency `trafficking. This is too much, if it is accompanied by the placement of people with criminal action. We have been coordinating with the Executive Coordinator Counter trafficking, the Minister of Women Empowerment and Child Protection," said Iskandar.

To solve it, Muhaimin APJATI requested that the government can help by strengthening the countries negotiating the placement as well as tackling human trafficking, as well as improve the quality of future workers.

"I also agree with this APJATI friends that tell why a lot that is not too much thankfully. So going forward, we no longer expect it to be mass placement, the placement must be measurable, must be planned with the quality of work is assured, "Iskandar said.

Minister asserted that there PPTKIS involved deliberate or careless in placing illegal migrants and trafficking, would be in the legal process.

"If there is involved the placement of a violation of the law and we will freeze the license canceled. Involved trafficking if it had contrived this deterrent effect. I have been coordinating with the local police as well with the governor," said Iskandar.

Meanwhile, Chairman APJATI Job Basalamah said it supports the government to take decisive action to PPTKIS found guilty of trafficking in human affairs.

"Being right of the government to take decisive action to PPTKIS for trafficking affair, but must go through before it cracked down mechanism to repeal SIUP (placement business license)," he explained.

Job said it had expressed its commitment to work together with the government to solve the problems of migrant workers abroad.