21 November 2009 was the expected date from Muhaimin Iskandar, Indonesian Minister of Manpower and Transmigration, as reported by Detik.com, on resolving MOU of Placement Indonesian workers to Malaysia by both governments, so that the moratorium on placement to Malaysia can be dismissed.
2 days have past for the expected deadline, and negotiator teams from both sides still arguing on some crucial things such as new salary scheme, placement fee and others.
No designated date has been informed when most likely the MOU will be inked by both governments.
While the MOU being discussed and negotiated, it is already almost 6 months since the moratorium applied by Indonesian Government thus creates new problems in placement business. Many Malaysian agencies have closed their businesses; else the illegal placement has been increased significantly mostly using water transportation in any legal or illegal exit points along Indonesian coast on Sumatra Island.
Binamandiri talked with an agency in Malaysia, who claimed that they still can get one or two maids who came using boat, as at all airports in Indonesia, security has been tighten due to the moratorium. It just likes Bernoulli fluid law, when we compress certain point or area, then the fluid will look for other area to expand, when the government suddenly stopped the placement to Malaysia, those workers will find other ways as long as they can reach and work in Malaysia, although those ways are illegal ways, and not even the government has the effort to prevent it.
The only way to prevent those illegal activities is the good consent of both governments to put away their selfness and with good intention to realize the MOU as soon as possible.
In other news, today 23 November 2009, the Malaysia Star reported that the MOU would likely to be inked on December 2009, but no specific date has been proposed, said Malaysian Minister of Human Resources, Dr. S Subramaniam. So that moratorium could be ended by December and the Indonesian maids can start to come to Malaysia again, he claimed. He hopes all problems and disputes on the MOU can be resolved by Desember 2009, as Indonesia has proposed their readiness to resolve all the disputes and problems on MOU as soon as possible.
We do all hopes that December 2009, will be the realization of MOU, as December just only a week time
