Tanjungpinang, Riau Islands – Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Financial Investment Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan applauded the Riau Islands Province’s authority over its handling of migrant employees’ arrival into the nation from Riau.
” We expressed our thankfulness to Governor Ansar Ahmad and the province’s authorities for supporting the central federal government’s efforts for dealing with the arrival of migrant employees,” Pandjaitan mentioned during a videoconference meeting to talk about migrant workers’ quarantine on Sunday.
Health procedures must be implemented while managing arrivals to avoid surfacing of COVID-19 infection clusters in the region, he emphasized.
Pandjaitan said that the arrival of Indonesian migrant workers– mostly working in Malaysia and Singapore– in the province was handled suitably.
Riau Islands’ border crossing has comprehensive procedures in location for PCR swab tests and separate handling procedures for COVID-19 favorable migrant workers, and those procedures have been carried out appropriately at all times, the collaborating minister noted.
” A correct system to deal with arrivals is considered required to ensure the COVID-19 infection rate in the province would continue to decrease, and COVID-19 favorable migrant workers would not contaminate others,” Pandjaitan mentioned.
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On The Other Hand, Riau Islands Guv Ansar Ahmad prompted the central government to also enable the processing of migrant workers in Tanjungpinang, as presently arrivals are centered just in Batam.
” We urge the main government to permit us to process the migrant employees at two areas in Batam and Tanjungpinang and not center the migrant employees’ arrival only at Batam,” Governor Ahmad specified.
If migrant workers’ arrival continues to be focused just in Batam, he revealed issue over the boost in expenditures and facilities being incapable of handling them, he kept in mind.
Tanjungpinang is more geared up to process migrant employees’ arrival, as the arrival facility there has adequate facilities and much easier access and is straight supervised by the Social Ministry, Ahmad mentioned.
” The Social Ministry presently does not supervise the arrival procedures in Batam,” the governor noted.
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