Abstract
This paper investigates the negatives impact of foreign labour on oil palm estates through a case study of Kota Tinggi Johor, a state where foreign labour immigration has played a key role in palm oil growth over the past three decades. Data were collected through a structured interview and survey. The questionnaires were delegated to employer’s representatives in Kota Tinggi Johor who have direct contacts with foreign workers. There were 97 sets of questionnaires completed and analyzed through the structured interviews. The main negative impacts induced by foreign workers are absenteeism, sexual harassment, alcoholism, discipline and criminal. Absenteeism and alcoholism factors showed significance difference towards estate management perspectives (P<0.05). This case study proves that there are still others factors influencing the negative impacts, social factors is not the only reason to affect. It must also being supported with economy and political factors in order to asses and control this challenges.
Highlights
Local labour depletion problems experienced by Malaysia resulted in the country had to use foreign labour to fulfil the industries of the country
Malaysia is using the foreign labour as an asset of national development According to the Department of Statistics Malaysia 2010, there were 16% registered foreign workers at plantation sectors in Malaysia
The findings showed that respondents were highly selected foreign workers from country of Indonesia (42.8%), Bangladesh (25.8%), Nepal (18.5%), and India (12.9%) as the citizenship of foreign workers that usually contribute problems to the management in oil palm plantation surrounding Company A Kota Tinggi based on their perception
Summary
Local labour depletion problems experienced by Malaysia resulted in the country had to use foreign labour to fulfil the industries of the country. Wong and Anwar (2003) as cited by Hamzah Abdul-Rahman (2012), highlighted that Malaysia is one of the countries which has become the focus of foreign workers and it has the highest ratio of illegal foreign workers in its workforce. Their presence has somewhat threatened the life of the local community who can bring many problems. Management of oil palm plantation should be confronted, deal, and make decisions with foreigners that have always pose problems and issues at workplaces especially in oil palm plantation sector. Dependency of foreign worker in plantation sectors was the most highly demanded whether they have provided problem or issues for management
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