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November 05, 2010

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Jakarta. A Taiwanese man has donated almost $30,000 to help the families of six Indonesian workers who died in a construction collapse in Nantou county in September.

Li Dong Liang handed $27,248 to the Taiwan Economic and Trade Office (TETO) in Jakarta on Thursday to give to the victims’ families.

The head of the office, Andrew Hsia, said his government was doing its best to arrange for the payment of compensation money to the families of the six workers.

The process, he added, is complicated by the fact that only one of the men was in possession of official work documents.

He said an investigation was under way to determine whether the company responsible for the construction project bore any liability for the accident.

“All foreign workers in Taiwan are treated the same as local workers.

Therefore, there will be another donation from the government to the families of the six workers,” Hsia added.

Hayono Isman, a member of House of Representatives Commission I, which deals with foreign affairs, thanked Taiwan for its handling of the accident.

“Though Taiwan does not have diplomatic relations with Indonesia, it respects our workers,” he said.

The Indonesians were killed on Sept. 30 when a section of a freeway they were working on collapsed in central Taiwan.

Wang Ju-hsiuan, the head of Taiwan’s Labor Council, said steel pillars supporting the freeway gave way and sent concrete slabs hurtling 50 meters to the ground.

He said that in addition to the six Indonesians, one Taiwanese worker was killed and three were injured.

According to official data, as of the end of August, 151,723 Indonesians were working in Taiwan. They accounted for more than 40 percent of the total number of migrant workers there.

About 85 percent of Indonesians working in Taiwan are domestic helpers, and only 1 percent of them are employed in the construction sector.


Antara, AP