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Malaysia

95,000 migrants flee in one month
During November 95,000 unregistered migrant workers, mostly from Indonesia had left Malaysia to avoid caning, fines, and imprisonment under Malaysia’s latest purge (see ALU 52). Caning for this ‘crime’ was legalised in 2002; fines can reach 10,000 ringgits ($US2,632); maximum jail sentence is five years.

World Socialist Web Site, 20 November 2004