Jakarta, March 14 -- Indonesia will send at least 600 thousand migrant workers to Saudi Arabia as soon as the moratorium on bilateral cooperation on worker placements is officially lifted.

"We will reopen this (placement of migrant workers to Saudi Arabia)," Minister for the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers, Abdul Kadir Karding, said here on Friday.

"We have also started discussions and negotiations with the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Human Resources and Social Affairs," he informed.

Karding said that of the 600,000 workers who will be sent to Saudi Arabia, 400,000 will be domestic workers and 200,000 will be formal workers.

The sending of Indonesian migrant workers will be legalized through a memorandum of understanding signed...