Ever since Indonesia announced a halt to palm oil exports, Malaysia has gone on a fast-track effort in the hiring process of much-needed foreign workers, especially for the plantation industry and a task force comprising several ministries and agencies have been formed.
The Malaysian Palm Oil Association said the special task force was formed on April 27 this year involving the Human Resources Ministry, Home Ministry, Health Ministry, Plantation Industries & Commodities Ministry and the Immigration Department.
The arrival of 32,000 workers for the plantation industry will be fast-tracked, which the government actually approved eight months ago, in the hope of fully exploiting the situation of boosting domestic exports of palm oil.
The task force would supplement the current One-Stop Centre headed by the Human Resources Ministry to expedite the hiring process.
Indonesia moved to ban palm oil exports because the republic made the decision to address its people’s protests and supply shortages.
Malaysia, on the other hand, produces slightly less than half of Indonesia’s production capacity but the population of Malaysia is about 10 percent of Indonesia and this is why Malaysia will not be in the republic’s situation where it has to halt exports.
-NIAGATIMES
