Indonesia government is working to consolidate migrant worker agencies in efforts to better supervise the export of Indonesian labor of Malaysia. Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar made the statement a week after the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between himself and Malaysian Human resources Minister S. Subramaniam, as they aimed to provide new protection for Indonesian domestic workers in Malaysia. Two years ago, a series of abuse cases led Indonesia to place a moratorium on any new recruitment of Indonesian domestic workers in Malaysia. Recruitment resumed after a new protection mechanism, under the MoU, was put in place. Muhaimin said recruitment resumed after consolidating all labor export agencies to control employers’ homes where domestic workers can live and work. He said if an agency found that an employer had tortured or treated a worker inhumanely, the employer would not be banned from employing Indonesian workers again. Muhaimin also said new measure was also needed to reduce the number of illegal migrant workers. As well as the consolidation measure, an improvement of the recruitment system and training was also needed to prevent Indonesian migrant workers from being exploited.