Pontianak, W Kalimantan – Officials of the Indonesian Consulate General in Kuching got Abdan, an undocumented migrant employee, who was discharged after healing from a Bintulu public health center in the capital city of the Malaysian state of Sarawak.
” We have been notified by the medical facility’s group of physicians that Abdan’s condition has actually got better, and he can be repatriated to Indonesia,” Indonesian Consul General in Kuching Yonny Tri Prayitno mentioned here on Monday.
Abdan, a resident of Dompu District in West Nusa Tenggara Province, lives at the consulate’s shelter while awaiting the day of his repatriation through the cross-border checkpoint at Entikong, Sanggau District, West Kalimantan Province.
This undocumented migrant employee was confessed to the Bintulu public health center on December 27, 2020, after he all of a sudden fell ill while visiting his pal in Mukah City, Sarawak, he mentioned.
Owing to monetary constraints over medical costs, Abdan’s friends started to inform the Indonesian Consulate General workplace in Kuching. Therefore, he might lastly be hospitalized.
” Abdan’s condition has been improving. May we be able to repatriate him in the near future,” Prayitno said.
The existence of undocumented Indonesian migrant employees in Malaysia has actually positioned a major, persistent challenge to Indonesia over the past few years.
In June 2020 alone, the Indonesian Military (TNI) Border Security Job Force workers obstructed 114 undocumented Indonesian migrant employees, who returned from Malaysia through unlawful routes near Entikong in Sanggau District.
Those undocumented migrant employees took a trip through woods and prohibited routes to return to Indonesia, according to the job force’s commander of Beruang Hitam’s 641 th Raider Infantry Battalion, Lt Col Kukuh Suharwiyono.
A number of undocumented migrant employees unlawfully used at Malaysia’s palm oil plantations confessed to the task force members of having ran away the nearby nation in the wake of no tasks in the middle of this coronavirus pandemic.
In October 2020, almost 500 unlawful Indonesian migrant workers were deported from Malaysia and flown back home aboard chartered AirAsia flights originating from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) 2 in Sepang, Selangor.
The migrant employees were flown back in three groups. The first group of 150 individuals were flown to Surabaya, East Java, while the 2nd batch of 150 people departed for Jakarta, and the third batch of 200 people flew to Medan, North Sumatra.
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