The Indonesian Workforce and Immigration Ministry has decided to suspend dispatching its domestic personnel abroad until 2017, reports Al-Anba daily.

Sources made clear that the decision is taken after the ministry noticed that its personnel’s rights are violated; in addition, some cases are sentenced to death in a number of countries which receive such personnel.

Indonesian Minister of Workforce and Immigration Mohaimen Eskandar said his ministry took the decision after reviewing a large number of reports in this regard since they confirm that the domestic personnel’s rights are violated in many countries. Therefore, the decision has been issued to give grace period for the ministry to legislate new laws and contracts can protect its domestic personnel.

He affirmed his ministry will confront several difficulties since over 650,000 domestic personnel migrate annually to various countries all over the world.

He stressed the new law will include laws to be treated as official laborers in terms of working hours, the day-off and the minimum salary besides insurance and the appropriate accommodation.

On the other hand, the secretary-general of Kuwait Labor Union Federation Abdulrahman Yousef Al-Ghanim revealed that a join delegation from International Labor Organization and International Confederation will arrive to Kuwait on Tuesday January 10 to tackle the positions of laborers with officials and a number of labor treaties the Kuwaiti government endorsed, reports Al-Seyassah daily.

Al-Ghanim bid however the chairman of Civil Service Commission’s board of directors Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid to negotiate with the union to allot solutions for the labor problems from which the syndicates, which are affiliated to the union, suffer such as the salary increments by 30 per cent.

He indicated the union took the initiative to cooperate with the government to provide appropriate solutions for all parts; yet, the government persists in issuing individual decisions concerning laborers without achieving any of their legal rights.