[PHNOM PENH POST]
Cambodia's labour recruitment firms are set to face stiff new
competition after Indonesia signed an agreement to allow migrant
domestic workers to seek employment in Malaysia for the first time in
almost two years on Monday.
The Memorandum of Understanding ends
a protracted deadlock between the two counties over exempting domestic
workers from a moratorium Indonesia imposed in 2009.
It stopped all Indonesian workers from taking up jobs in Malaysia because of reported abuses.
Secretary
General of the Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies, Sok
Chanpheakday, said yesterday, the MoU could land a blow to the
Kingdom’sn labour industry, which enjoyed a surge in demand after the
Indonesia’s moratorium was first imposed.
“The [demand for]
migrant Cambodian domestic workers will go down because Malaysia has a
demand for Indonesians, they need more Cambodians but the problem is
communication, their [Indonesia and Malaysia’s] languages are almost the
same,” he said.
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