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Kerala trying to help 40 people duped in Indonesia
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 13
As many as 40
people from Kerala, who were cheated by unscrupulous recruitment agents
and are now living a tough life in Indonesia, have got assurances from
the state government that their woes will end soon.
After knowing
of their situation, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Wednesday evening
asked the Kerala Associations in Indonesia to come to their succour.
"We
have established contacts with Malayali associations there, and they
have agreed to immediately see how best they could intervene," a close
aide of Chandy told IANS.
"Tomorrow (Thursday), the CM is going
to speak to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and will seek help
to see that these hapless people are either ensured of a proper job or
they are able to return," the aide said.
Most of these people
have been in Indonesia for the past one year. The were taken by agents
who duped them by taking fees as high as Rs.3 lakh, but they did not get
the promised jobs and have been living a life of misery.