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Malaysia agrees to integrate migrant-workers system with Indonesia
Malaysia’s Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan said on Tuesday that the country agreed in principle to integrate the system of recruitment of foreign workers into the country with Indonesia.
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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo's meets with Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob at the Bogor Presidential Palace in West Java. (Reuters/Courtesy of Laily Rachev/Indonesia's Presidential Palace)
Malaysia’s Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan said on Tuesday that the country agreed in principle to integrate the system of recruitment of foreign workers into the country with Indonesia.
“[On Monday], we had a discussion with Indonesia, and we agreed to integrate the existing system, that of the Home Ministry, and the system proposed by Indonesia,” the minister said during Minister Question Time with Dewan Rakyat, the country’s lower house of its bicameral parliament, on Tuesday.
The minister said that both countries were looking to integrate their systems to develop a single channel for the hiring of domestic helpers under the One Channel System (OCS).
Saravanan said that nothing in the bilateral memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Malaysia and Indonesia for the sourcing of domestic helpers stated that the present Maid Online System (SMO) must be scrapped.
“It is stated in the MoU that the existing system in Indonesia should be used, but there was no condition that we have to abolish our existing system,” he said in the session.
Malaysia’s Immigration Department, under the Home Ministry, operates the SMO.
