00:00The more important question is how AI can play a very big role in KESUMA.
00:21Today I will share with you one of the things which is currently in discussion in KESUMA is for
00:28example to use AI for foreign workers.
00:32Foreign labour is a major problem in the country as you can see of late there have been numerous
00:37reports some of the MPs have also criticized on their being migrant workers in Malaysia
00:44where their well-beings are not looked after illegal foreign workers which are in the country
00:49which haven't been sent back or currently still actually having employment in the country.
00:55Now we're in the midst of working out a system of course it's in still it's not yet mature
01:01state yet this system will cater whereby it is direct from employer to employee.
01:09What do I mean by this?
01:11An example you have a foreign worker sitting down in Nepal or you have a foreign worker sitting
01:16down in Pakistan and they want employment.
01:21Through this recruitment platform you are able to speak with them directly.
01:27example you are an employer today if you want a worker what do you do you go to an agent
01:33or you go and apply like now for example because everything is closed you make your application
01:39but you don't know the worker you are getting you've never met the worker is the worker actually
01:45acceptable to the job which he or she is going to get here that question remains a question mark.
01:52no one knows no one can answer that that's why you have a lot of workers they come here
01:58they are promised job a but they end up being given job b this is one number two there is absurd amount
02:07of fees from the village agent the town agent the recruiting agent and then they come here
02:17this high cost which they have to pay is what leaves them in a lot of problems before they even start working.
02:26now why we have all these layers which they have to pay is because they don't have a way to apply for a job themselves.
02:35now with this system employer goes into the system they see all the names of the employers and employees which need
02:45workers or which workers need jobs they apply now when you apply for example the employer says i want to pick on this current
02:55current worker you click you arrange a time and you can interview them online of course there are a lot of
03:03questions for example how will you be able to communicate somebody in nepal might not be able to have the fluency to
03:10speak to you in for example basa malaysia ai will convert it for you you speak in basa malaysia they will receive their
03:19response in their mother tongue whatever it may be or when they respond we will get the response in basa
03:26malaysia so this is how we the ministry is trying to use ai to resolve all these kind of problems
03:35this is one of the major problems that we face today in malaysia you know and i think with the help of ai
03:41and with the help of this kind of a platform should we get it up and running i think it will be able to
03:48streamline a lot of uh issues that is currently being faced it eliminates the middleman completely
03:55because you are directly employer to employee you get your job directly you see the ilo the international
04:04labor organization organization allows you one month salary for you to utilize for your recruitment
04:10process whether it's buying of plane ticket whether it's uh for application fees and whatever what
04:16not which is one month salary now let's assume one month salary is going to be one thousand us dollars
04:22an example i'm giving as an example assuming it's one thousand us dollars you pay the one thousand us
04:27dollars you get your job here and then you carry on with what you're doing but today workers are being
04:34made to pay five thousand six thousand seven thousand eight thousand us dollars before they even step foot
04:40in this country and get a job this is what leads to social problems human trafficking money laundering
04:47nothing is systemized so right now with this current platform should it be a platform after being digested
04:56and being scrutinized by the ministry and we are able to find a way moving forward this will eliminate all
05:03those issues maybe not in totality but it will be maybe a just a small fraction where they will still be
05:10affected by these issues or plagued by this problem whereby they having to deal with this middleman
05:17of course it's now just in its baby stage of course there are a lot of things to take into account
05:22uh for example the the sustainability of the platform because you're going to have huge traffic
05:29huge traffic will the system be a stable system can it comply with the bandwidth which is going to be
05:36utilized so these are few things which we are currently studying currently working on and of course as in a
05:42time-by-time basis it won't be too long but in a time-by-time basis we will give periodic updates on what is the
05:49current status how far uh ahead we are and how far ahead we are from implementing uh this platform
05:57of course it can it has to be brought to cabinet uh of course it has to be jointly discussed with the
06:03home affairs ministry of course we hope to do it by by mid this year or at worst end next year but
06:11implementing something so big we also need uh to make sure that the stakeholders
06:16uh um and also we also dealing with countries which are uh overseas which also have workers and they also
06:24have their own laws and whatever it may be and we need to make sure everything is in sync before we do this
06:38so
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