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
Taipei, Feb. 1 (CNA) Dangdut music and the smell of cooking fill the air at the three-story Shelter Indonesia KDEI Taipei, a temporary home for undocumented migrant workers awaiting deportation, run by the Indonesian Economic and Trade Office (IETO) to Taipei.
Universities’ efforts to recruit foreign students outside established programs would be scrutinized more closely, the Ministry of Education said yesterday, after Ugandan students accused Chung Chou University of Science and Technology of using them as laborers.
The ministry said it on Jan. 10 received a complaint from students saying that the university did not live up to what it had promised when recruiting them and instead exploited them as laborers.
Police on Friday last week questioned the university’s Department of Education Promotion director, surnamed Lan (藍), and its vice president, surnamed Chai (柴), the ministry said.
Chai and Lan were suspected of breaching
‘BROKEN PROMISE’: One university official was detained and another released on bail over labor exploitation allegations by students from UgandaBy Wu Po-hsuan, Rachel Lin and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer