Kuala Lumpur: The Foreign Workers Transformation Approach (FWTA) via the SANSOLS platform is a rip-off imposed by the Sarawak Government on Sarawakian companies, businesses, and employers across all economic sectors, and should be terminated immediately.
I have today received an answer from the Ministry of Human Resources confirming that the SANSOLS platform was introduced and made compulsory by the State Government in January, 2025 for all applications for foreign workers in Sarawak, and that all policies and fees charged on the platform are under the power of the Sarawak State Government.
In the name of digitalisation, the GPS State Government has made it compulsory for all companies, businesses and employers across Sarawak to use the SANSOLS platform for the employment of foreign workers.
This has created additional bureaucratic red tape and costs for all applications for foreign workers in Sarawak, which other states in Malaysia do not have.
The State Government has also appointed ONE monopoly company to operate the SANSOLS platform and collect from the public.
This modus operandi was kept very secretive until YB Violet Yong finally exposed it at the 2026 May Sarawak DUN sitting: that all payments by companies, businesses, and employers in Sarawak made through the SANSOLS platform go to one private company.
It was estimated that approximately 130,000 foreign workers were in Sarawak in 2025.
At a charge of RM1,800 per worker, the total amount collected by this one private company from companies and businesses would be RM200 million in 2025.
The SANSOLS platform is, first and foremost, unnecessary and makes the application process for foreign workers more inefficient.
Secondly, it adds to the application’s costs.
Thirdly, it takes hundreds of millions from all companies, businesses, and employers that employ foreign workers to enrich ONE monopoly company.
This is clearly an abuse of our immigration autonomy to enrich one private company.
It is thus incumbent upon the State Government to come clean and tell all Sarawakians who is actually behind this ONE monopoly company created by the State Government to collect an estimated RM200 million annually from Sarawakians.
The State Government should also be transparent on the procurement process and tell us how the Government selected this company as the monopoly company.
Lastly, I reiterate my call for the State Government to take immediate steps to terminate the SANSOLS platform and resume the use of the previous system, the Monitoring System on the Employment of Non-Sarawakian (MSEN), which is free of charge.
Chong Chieng Jen
Stampin MP
1 July 2026
