Three Waves of Labor to Malaysia
Tuesday, July 17, 2001
Alfitra Salamm*)
The historical roots of Indonesian migrant labor (TKI) in Malaysia can be traced to the secret meeting between president Suharto and premier Tun Abdul Razak in Malaysia in 1974. The political meeting focused on the need to send TKI to Malaysia. The Malaysian government wanted to offset the size of the Chinese community in Malaysia that they feared threatened the political resilience of the ethnic Malays. The party's fe |
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