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Siwa explained that the cases --- which included deaths, salary disputes,
deportation, illness, communication troubles and workers who asked to be sent
home --- involved 395 non-procedural workers and 16 official workers.

Of the 119 dead workers, 112 bodies had been sent home while six workers were
buried in Malaysia and one body was still being processed for being sent home.

Siwa also said that his agency would continue to cooperate with other parties to
solve Indonesian immigrant workers' issues.

"We maintain cooperation with religious and public figures to introduce the
importance of fulfilling administrative requirements to become a legal worker. In the
future, we will intensify this joint cooperation to reduce the number of non-
procedural workers," Siwa said.

The National Network Against Human Trafficking (JarNas Anti TPPO) secretary
Gabriel Goa said that the number of deaths among immigrant workers from NTT
kept on increasing every year.

According to JarNas' data a total of 124 workers died abroad. Of the figure, 119
were in line with the data recorded by BP3TKI Kupang while two others were still
being processed by their respective families and the other three had been buried in
Malaysia.

Gabriel further urged the Indonesian government to sign a new memorandum of
understanding (MoU) with the Malaysian government regarding Indonesian workers
in Malaysia as the old one had expired.

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