Jakarta, May 1 -- Migrant Care, a migrant workers' advocacy group, appealed to the government to lift the ban on sending migrant workers to the Middle East since it has fuelled widespread illegal entry of workers into the region.
"A better option will be to re-allow migrant workers to be sent to the Middle East, though after we ready a better instrument for ensuring their protection," Anis Hidayah, head of Migrant Care's center of study for workers migration, remarked here on Wednesday.
Hidayah suggested that the government should conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the moratorium to ban the sending of new domestic workers to the Middle East prior to revoking the ban, particularly in connection with the protection of workers.
"Migrant ...