PUTRAJAYA: A total of 1,051,427 job vacancies have been listed by eight ministries to be filled by Malaysians, before they are given to illegal immigrants given amnesty under the 6P programme.

Home Ministry deputy secretary-general Datuk Alwi Ibrahim said of the figure, the International Trade and Industry Ministry had the most vacancies at 275,723, followed by the Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Ministry (237,700), Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry (220,000), Construction Industry Development Board (165,000), Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry (140,000), Home Ministry (10,000), Tourism Ministry (2,041) and Transport Ministry (963).

“This statistics were made avaliable to the Home Ministry at a meeting to update the status on the 6P programme which was chaired by the Home Ministry secretary-general Monday,” he said in a statement here Tuesday.

Alwi said most of the vacancies involved five sectors identified as the ones using the highest number of foreign workers which were manufacturing, production, plantation, agriculture and construction.

He said the vacancies would be advertised in several local dailies in stages beginning Thursday, and urged Malaysians particularly those who are still unemployed, to grab the opportunities.

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