Indonesian community in Kampung Baru rallies around unpaid migrant workers amid Covid-19 shutdown
Saturday, 02 May 2020 09:00 AM MYTTraders leave the Raja Bot market after taking their Covid-19 screening and swab test, April 30, 2020. — Pictures by Hari Anggara
The Acehnese worker said since the MCO began, migrant workers who earn their keep at the market have had to depend on each other for food. This is to make way for sanitation work while the MOH conducts a Covid-19 screening of all traders, workers, family members and visitors to the market prior to the shut order.
“Most of them are paid a daily wage. I'm going to try and see what I can do to help them,” he said when met byAnother migrant worker, who only wanted to be identified as Izzah, said she had not been paid since the start of the MCO on March 18.
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