Shelter touts efforts to help migrant workers

Dangdut music and the smell of cooking fill the air at the three-story Shelter Indonesia KDEI Taipei, a temporary home run by the Indonesian Economic and Trade Office to Taipei (IETO) for migrant workers awaiting deportation.
The 331m2 facility is one of six shelters established by the office and one of two that accepts workers who have “absconded” from their employers.
“Absconded” workers are those who have fled their place of legal employment, said Fajar Nuradi, director of the Indonesian Citizens Protection and Social Cultural Department at the IETO.
Yet at the shelter, where during an average stay of two weeks residents are

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