Former human resources minister M Kulasegaran has called on Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob to compel the Home Ministry (KDN) to the negotiation table with Indonesia to finalise the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the two countries on the recruitment and placement of domestic workers.

The planned inking of the MOU on Feb 7 and 8 in Bali has been postponed to an unspecified date and was also holding up the recruitment of Indonesian workers into other sectors as the country had announced a temporary freeze last December on its labour migration into Malaysia pending the signing of a fresh MOU.