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The issues related to Indonesian labors in Malaysia become one of the main priorities of the Southeast Asia Directorate of Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2018. The issues, are among others protection, education access and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of Indonesian labor dispatch. This was stated by the Director of Southeast Asia Cooperation, Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denny Abdi in a special interview with Voice of Indonesia in Jakarta, Monday, January 29, 2018.

“Yes there are some targets, which will be prioritized, such as the protection of Indonesian workers. There are some priorities such as access to education or cooperation in the form of MoU of labor dispatching. Well, those are concrete targets that we want to realize in the next two years.Denny Abdi said

In addition to solve the problems related to the Indonesian workers in Malaysia, Denny Abdi further explained the Directorate of Southeast Asia Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2018 also prioritized Digital Economy cooperation with Singapore as a follow up of bilateral meeting between Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong in 2017. The Directorate of Southeast Asia is a new directorate established by Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Retno Marsudi. The directorate is specifically assigned to handle the bilateral relations between Indonesia and countries in Southeast Asia// Rezha/Edt N