Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/08/22
By: Jay Chou and Elizabeth Hsu

Jakarta, Aug. 22 (CNA) Indonesia wants to revise a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Taiwan to bring wages for its nationals working on fishing boats and as domestic helpers in line with Taiwan’s minimum wage, a high-rank Indonesian official said Monday.

The plan to seek a revision to the 2011 Taiwan-Indonesia MOU on recruiting, settling and protecting workers was brought up at a meeting of the labor and foreign affairs ministries, Soes Hindarno, director of placement and protection of Indonesian workers abroad under the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, told CNA.

His country wants the revision to focus on the rights and benefits of Indonesian fishing workers in Taiwan because their conditions are not favorable, said Hindarno, who was at the Monday meeting.

They will ask Taiwan to increase the fishing workers’ wages, he said, noting that the goal is for wages to be at least the same as the statutory minimum wage in Taiwan.     [FULL  STORY]