COTABATO City—The Ministry of Labor and Employment (MOLE) of the Bangsamoro Region will have to develop a Moro workers’ database which will be compliant with the Philippine Data Privacy Act, and in line with the data laws of other countries.
This is according to Bangsamoro Labor and Employment Minister Muslimin Sema, a former mayor of this city, who said time will come when the national database will be locked by codes from access by agencies of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
Sema’s wife, former Maguindanao First District Rep. Bai Sandra Sinsuat-Sema, said an effective MOLE database platform will even create a job market for graduates of Kulliya (Arabic Colleges) at call centers for recorded Arabic translations among the world’s leading languages.
Sema said only development of data privacy manuals on the part of BARMM agencies can prevent such a situations.
He said that there are more than 20,000 Moro workers employed in the Middle East alone, and that a DPA-compliant database for Moro workers will effectively address the perennial problem of “undocumented” overseas Filipino workers (OFW) among the Moro labor force.
