Envoy: No cancellation of plan to send Indonesian plantation workers to M'sia

Indonesia’s top envoy to Malaysia is working with his ministries to uncover the “real reason” why 164 workers were not permitted to leave their country for Malaysia last night.

The workers were prevented from leaving Lombok in the Nusa Tenggara Barat cluster of islands by the Agency for the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers due to documentation issues.

Indonesia’s ambassador to Malaysia, Hermono (above), said he was perplexed as to the...