Muhaimin, Tangerang officials admit poor monitoring leads to ‘slavery’

| | Thu, January 01 1970, 7:00 AM

Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar admitted that poor monitoring  played a significant role behind the so-called slave factory  in Tangerang, Banten.

“There are so many factories with less than 100 workers and they are very difficult to monitor particularly when operations are covered-up and hidden in neighborhoods like the one in Tangerang,” Muhaimin said at the State Palace recently.

Separately, Tangerang regency secretary Iskandar echoed Muhaimin’s remarks.  “We apologize to the families of all 34 workers who received bad treatment as a result of the weak monitoring,” said on Tuesday.

He later said that if any of the workers wanted to go back to Tangerang to look for jobs, the regency administration would be more than willing to escort them to make sure that everything would be in line with the correct procedures.