Jakarta, April 28 -- Indonesian Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah held a meeting with Malaysian Minister of Human Resources Sim Chee Keong on Sunday to discuss bilateral manpower cooperation and issues related to Indonesian migrant workers.

In her ministry's statement received in Jakarta, Fauziyah expressed hope that Sim, a newly appointed minister in Malaysia, would bring improvements to manpower-related policies in his country, which, in turn, is expected to lead to improvements in the welfare and protection of Indonesian migrant workers.

"I believe that with Minister Sim Chee Keong's support, the cooperation in manpower established by the governments of Indonesia and Malaysia will produce more concrete results," she remarked during the ...