The Indonesian government would make a final decision on the appropriate time to ratify the United Nations convention on migrant workers and their families in February next year, a minister said Monday.

Lack of preparation in Indonesia has led to a delay in the ratification of the convention, according to the country's Justice and Human Rights Affairs Ministry.

"We have discussed it with several ministries, and it would be considered during the first 100 days of cabinet work," Indonesian Labor and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said at Bumikarsa hotel here.

Hundreds of thousands of Indonesians worked overseas, mostly in informal sector as mates.

The minister said that the government may decide to ratify the convention as soon as possible "or to wait for the readiness of infrastructure at several ministries."

Previously, Director at the Justice and Human Rights Affairs Ministry Hakristuti Hakrisnowo has confirmed that Indonesia did not reject to ratify the convention but it still needed more preparation.

(Xinhua News Agency December 15, 2009)