On today show:
— Adrian Pereira, Executive Director of the North South initiative – Improving the Rights and Protection of Foreign Workers in Malaysia
— Julaihie from Lawas – A Decade-Long Struggle: Securing a MyKad for an Indigenous Child
— Norashikin MUDA Sarawak – Protecting Peace: Sarawak's Message Amidst KK Mart Violence

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Adrian Pereira, Executive Director of the North South initiative
*Improving the Rights and Protection of Foreign Workers in Malaysia*
For more than 30 years, Malaysia has depended on foreign labor to meet its workforce needs. In 30 years, Malaysia should have been able to produce a complete, orderly system and comprehensive labor-related laws.
However, the disclosure of the report by the committee related to migrant labor (report issued in 2023) - through the study conducted in 2018-2019 shows that there are still many weaknesses and confusion by some parties.
What happened to Siselia Putri and Wendy Dara is a common case because these foreign workers do not clearly know the right method to come to work in Malaysia and coupled with the greedy attitude of the employment agencies and fake employers and the widespread symptoms of corruption.
The main cause of this problem is incorrect information obtained in the country of origin. Most of the migrant workers who use the services of employment agencies are poorly educated. Some are unable to confirm whether the information obtained is correct or not. There are also those who do not know about the need for work permits, passports, work contracts and human rights. Thus when meeting with greedy employment agencies and fake employers who want to get rich quickly, then there were cases of persecution of migrant workers.
The movement of migrant labor from the country of origin with incomplete documents will cause cases of human smuggling and cases of human trafficking. When arriving in the country where they are supposed to work and be paid the wages as promised. With the weaknesses mentioned earlier they will be exploited easily, although Malaysia has a Private Employment Agency Act, but monitoring and enforcement by the government is very low.
Andrian advised foreign workers who want to work in this country or even Malaysian workers who want to work abroad to check the list of valid employment agencies in their respective embassies and to clearly know the labor rights and human rights in the country they are going to.

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