REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BATAM – The Ministry of Social Affairs will soon open Protection House and Trauma Center (RPTC) for troubled Indonesian workers in Tanjung Pinang, Riau Archipelago (Kepri). Provincial Government of Kepri, represented by the Governor Muhammad Sani, has grant 2.5 hectare land to the ministry, represented by the Minister of Social Affairs, Salim Segaf Al Jufri.

Allocated for psychological recovery center for Indonesian workers, The construction of RPTC begins on the next April and will be finished on July 2012. "RPTC is for migrant who have problems to cure their trauma," he said in Batam.

Kepri has become a transit for Indonesia workers deported from the destination countries. The mental of the workers will be cured before they send back home. In RPTC, TKI will get social consultation and psychological therapy apart from medical treatment.

They will also get 250.000 IDR as pocket money. "With RPTC, the problem Indonesian workers are expected to come back home in good condition so that they can be independent and develop productive economy," the minister said.

In its early stage, the RPTC is expected to accommodate 100 Indonesia workers who suffer mental illness. According to the data in the Ministry of Social, the Indonesian workers deported through Kepri in 2011 reach 18.736 or 600 people a week. Meanwhile, the data in Social Department of Kepri Provincial Government says along 2009 and 2010, the Indonesian workers deported through Batam are approximately 150.000. 

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