RI's Workers in Sabah Prohibited to Work

Nunukan (Antara Bali) - Some Indonesian migrant workers employed in oil palm plantations in the Malaysian state of Sabah are prohibited by their employers to work in the past two days for safety reasons.

"We have been prohibited by our employers to work since Friday for fear that an unexpected thing will happen to us," Nila, a supervisor of Indonesian migrant workers employed in an oil palm plantation at Lahad Datu, Sabah, said Sunday.

According to him, security conditions in and around the oil palm plantation have become tense since a group of armed persons allegedly hailing from the Sulu Sultanate in the Philippines entered the oil palm plantation to disturb security there.

Although the palm oil plantation in Sahabat 12 is 30 km away from the chaos site in Felda Sahabat 17, the employers continue to prohibit the workers to work at the oil palm plantation, he said. (*/M038/T007)