2. MEANING
• Workers from another country working in our country.
• Also called as migrant workers.
Basically, foreign workers are known as individuals who works in Malaysia
but coming from another country.

3. CAUSES OF FOREIGN WORKERS IN MALAYSIA
Hiring skilled workers
• Our country are lacked of professional worker. So our country imported some
professional worker from another country to work at Malaysia to share their expertise
with the people here.
Example: The government hired professional contract workers to be employed in certain
sectors such as medical, education, construction and many more.
Our people a lilttle choosy about finding a job
• When it comes to finding a job, Malaysian people are a bit choosy. They prefer to find a
job with higher salary and less physical activities.
Example: Whenever a post-graduate student finished study, they all waiting for their jobs
offer, but when they waiting, they expect a high class job that suits their standard, so the not
so high class jobs are taken over by foreign workers.

5. Advantage
They all come for a better future.
• Most of the migrant worker are coming to Malaysia because they wanted to find a better
job for them. In some country such as Philiphines, Thailand and Myanmar, finding a good
job which pays in a reasonable value are like “finding a needle in the haystack”.
Example: In Sabah, there are many foreign workers from Philiphines. They coming to Sabah
to find job because our currency value is far more higher than Philiphines currency value. So
they work here to get more money.

7. Developing the economy of country.
• Because there are many foreign workers at Malaysia, the productivity of our country
increase, thus increasing the economy of our country.
Example: A factory can produce many product when have more workers, just like workers
from Indonesia and Philiphines, many of these migrants workers works at wrapping food
factory. So, the factory can get many profits because it has a large number of workers.

8. DISADVANTAGE
Population keeps increasing, there for a high level of unemployment in
Malaysia
• As well as we all know, many foreign workers in Malaysia, therefore, they all covered up all
the vacant jobs in Malaysia, because of that many of our people doesn’t have job.
Example: There are many foreign people applying to work in our country than our own local
people. Therefore, the vacant jobs in Malaysia are taken over by foreign workers and the local
people are left unemployed.

9. Bring a bad culture to our sociaty
• Each of people in this world has their own culture. Imagine if there are many foreign
workers in our community, of course there will be multi culture in our country. Even the
bad culture also spread among in our community.
Example: The most significant bad culture that spread among in our community can be seen
in fashion and attitude. Most of our generation are following the trend fashion of rock and
the violence type of fashion such as thorn jeans and loosen pants. Besides than that, our
people are judging by the following steps of bad attitude such as bad talking by using
foreign words.

10. Overpopulation
• Overpopulation means that there are too many people living in a community. Based from that
statement, the contributor of our over population was the foreign workers in Malaysia. They
coming to Malaysia in a large numbers.
Example: For starter, the numbers of foreign workers in our country are not too much, but because of
our stable economy, many migrant workers are coming to find jobs that gives them satisfying salary.

11. COMMUNITY REACTION OF FOREIGN WORKERS
Feels very unpleasant
• Seeing many unfamiliar faces besides than malay looking people, they feel unsafe.
Unsatisfied
• Their numbers keep increasing, the community worried they will make Malaysia as their
own country while they was just finding living here.
Crime rate increase
• Several migrant workers in Malaysia commit crimes. The crime rate of our nation also
increased, this will make a scratch to our reputation.

12. ESSAY TEMPLATE
Introduction
 Write about the causes of foreign workers coming to malaysia and tells about why we
need foreign workers in our country.
1st, 2nd, 3rd points
• Write about the advantage or the disadvantege of foreign workers or follow what the
question ask for. Give example for each of the statement you wrote to strengthen your
statement.
Conclusion
• Write about what we or other should do based from the question and you can slip in your
opinion about the main topic given in the question.