Jakarta, July 17 -- Minister for the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (P2MI), Abdul Kadir Karding, has denied reports that the Japanese government has decided to stop accepting migrant workers from Indonesia.

Karding stressed that the information is false.

"We have coordinated with the Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo, and there is no closure policy at all," the minister clarified in Pekanbaru, according to a statement released by the ministry here on Wednesday.

He informed that the issue arose after three Indonesian citizens got caught in legal trouble in Japan.

However, they are not official migrant workers-one is an intern, while the other two are tourists, he said.

"So, it has nothing to do with the official migrant worker pla...