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Foreign workers are no longer allowed to enter the country except for plantation industry.

Malaysia is currently having government-to-government talks with India, Bangladesh and (Southern) Thailand on bringing more foreign workers into the local plantation industry besides Indonesia.

And this could also solve the triple problems of unemployment, underemployment and too much reliance on foreign labour.

MEOA said plantation industry relies almost exclusively on foreign workers for field work, especially in harvesting oil palm fruit bunches.

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