This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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This Wednesday, nine people drowned and twenty six went missing after a boat carrying Indonesian migrants sank off Malaysia. Jazlizad Jalil, from a local fire and rescue department, informed that fishermen had recovered the bodies of a man and a woman, believed to be from the boat, floating near the edge of the Sungai Langat river in the town of Kuala Langat, 45 kilometres west of Kuala Lumpur. the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) told about recovering six more male and a female body floating over the water.
Ibrahim Mohamed, an MMEA official, said the wooden fishing boat was believed to be heading for the Indonesian province of Aceh, whose nearest point is about 400 kilometres from the coast of Kuala Langat. “A survivor said the boat was overloaded and began taking in water after it was battered by huge waves, causing it to sink,” he said. “It’s difficult to speculate on the fate of the missing since the accident happened near the shore, so some of them could have swum to safety,” Ibrahim said. “We will just continue our search and hope to recover more survivors.” The Indonesian workers were returning home to celebrate Ramadhan, a source at the MMEA said.
Of the estimated 1.5 million undocumented migrant workers in Malaysia, more than half are from Indonesia, an Interior Ministry official said. Many make the journey between the two countries on rickety wooden boats in search of employment. “Most of these illegal Indonesian workers are working as maids, helpers in restaurants, or in palm oil and rubber plantations,” he said.
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