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We cannot leave it within the black box; it has to be
tranced out because if you leave dark or behind this black
curtain, beyond understanding, beyond monitoring, beyond
transparency, somebody will make money in other ways,
somebody will take profit from all of this, somebody will
exploit it, those poor human beings and human trafficking
would be a plague.
I don’t think ASEAN wants to have that image outside
of the region. Ten of them agreed to integrate but they are not
protecting their own people, they are not helping their own
people, but they are taking advantage, they are exploiting.
These poor people will have no help, no protection, no support,
no counsel, and no advice. So, those are the unskilled but
here you are focusing on the skilled, on the eight professions.
I would say that ASEAN is moving in the direction of closer
integration but in the area of skilled labor mobility being
employed in each other economies. This is still very much
lagging behind and if agencies could get together and have the
experts of those professions, what are their hopes? What are
their fears? What are their concerns? And how are we going
to help ASEAN address this problem of facilitating better and
more secure movement of skilled workers among ourselves?
Those who are ready, those who want to and those
who add to the requirement of those less developed ASEAN
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