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that if the fishermen do not come on land, they would not be technically under Malaysian
jurisdiction.
Box 2: PLKS Workers Box 3: PLKS Workers Box 5: Expatriates
Peninsular Malaysia Sarawak Manufacturing
Manufacturing Manufacturing Hotel
Construction Construction Agriculture
Plantation Agriculture Tourism
Agriculture Transportation Research and
Mining & Quarrying Services Development
Services Restaurant ICT
Restaurant (include Coffee House Others (Financial,
coffee shops) Dobby Education, etc)
Resort Island Cargo Handling
Cleaning & Others based on
Sanitation need
Theme park
Hotel Box 4: PLKS Workers
Golf Caddy (Men) Sabah
SPA Manufacturing
Reflexology Construction
Cargo Handling Plantation
(Port / Airport) Agriculture
Domestic Worker Domestic Worker
Services
3.3 Designated source countries
4. Foreign workers may only be recruited from the approved list of source countries.
There are more source countries for Peninsula Malaysia than for Sarawak or Sabah (see Box
6). For Sarawak, other than Indonesia as a source country, the authorities there have the
discretion for hiring workers from other countries based on needs on a case-by-case basis. In
Sabah, only foreign workers from Indonesia and the Philippines are allowed. There are cases
of FWs from China and North Korea being recruited but they do not go through the regular
channels of approval.
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