Hundreds of Indonesian workers are deported from Malaysia.

Malaysia began deportations of 829 Indonesian overseas workers (TKI) on 5th April after the workers had served time in Malaysian prisons or undergone other punishments, mostly for visa or passport irregularities:

Most of them were caned with a rattan stick.

Said Didik Trimardjono, an Indonesian consular official in Johor Bahru. mediaindo

Deputy Indonesian ambassador to Malaysia, A Mohamad Fachir, sees off 52 guest workers being deported.

Meanwhile Renvyannis Gazali, Indonesia’s consular general in Johor Baru, recently toured a number of Malaysian prisons and said dozens of the Indonesian female inmates there were pregnant or had recently given birth.

Dozens were pregnant, I saw dozens of babies there.

Fachir says he doesn’t know whether the women fell pregnant in prison or before being arrested. He says he often visits prisons to check on conditions for Indonesian inmates, and that these conditions are often very poor. mediaindo

The Malaysian immigration office says in 2006 Indonesia accounted for the biggest number of foreign workers in the country at 1,174,013 people, followed by 213,551 Nepalese, 138,313 Indians, and 109,219 Burmese.

The Director of the Indonesian Sociology Research Institute, Khairudin Harahap, says there are currently 53 Indonesian guest workers on death row or facing death sentences in Malaysia, with most of them being held at the Sungai Buluh prison in Selanggor.

Of the 53 thirty seven are from Aceh, seven from North Sumatera, two from Madura, and one each from Riau, Tulungagung, Bali, and NTB, while for three others their places of origin are not known. Two among the 53 are women, they being Maria Palo who is probably from Sulawesi and Mariana Mariaji from Tulung Agung in East Java.

Forty-three of the prisoners are being held on narcotics charges, while the remaining ten are accused or have been convicted of murder. suaramerdeka