JAKARTA: Indonesia has decided to temporarily stop sending women workers to work abroad as domestic helpers, baby-sitters and elderly care-giversfrom this month, saying that it is to increase training facilities prior to reopening the immigration gates.
“The ban is for between two and three months,” I Gusti Made Arka, the director-general of overseas employment services at Indonesia’s Ministry of Labour, said in an interview here yesterday.
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