JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 (Reuters): Malaysia, the world's second-largest palm oil producer, will on Tuesday welcome the first major batch of migrant workers from Indonesia since reopening borders to staff labour-starved plantations and support a recovery in production.
The Sout-Eeast Asian nation relies on some two million documented foreign workers - mainly from Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Nepal - to fill factory and plantation jobs shunned by locals who regard them as dirty, dangerous and difficult.
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