LABOR
Fighting over Migrant Workers

Hostilities between the Minister of Labor and the head of the National Agency for the Placement & Protection of Overseas Labor have come out into the open. A difference in interpreting the legislation?

January 20, 2009

THE distance between the National Agency for the Placement & Protection of Overseas Labor (BNP2TKI) building and the offices of the Minister for Labor is not very far: less than 5 kilometers. Both are located on the same stretch of road: the Department of Labor is on Jl. Gatot Subroto while the BNP2TKI is located on Jl. M.T. Haryono, with the Pancoran Monument in between. If the roads are quiet, the journey from the BNP2TKI to the Department take

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