The one-channel system scheme integrates Indonesia's migrant worker service application SIAPKerja and Malaysia's Foreign Workers Centralised Management System, the minister noted.
The task force will be tasked to enhance control and monitoring over the illegal ports that are often used by PMI to leave and return to Indonesia illegally.
Four crew and 35 passengers were rescued, while others were presumed dead.
Indonesian and Malaysian governments continued talks to discuss the placement and protection of Indonesian migrant workers, or PMI, in Malaysia.
