Some 1,750 Indonesian workers currently working in the Middle East will be repatriated next week amid claims by their government that they are being mistreated.

The migrant workers - employed in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan - will be returned home from November 9 "for their own good", a government official said.

The workers would be brought home because they were not being treated fairly in the Middle East, said Indonesian Manpower and Tranmigration Minister, Muhaimin Iskandar in comments published by the Indonesian News Agency.

The minister said Indonesia would also stop sending workers to the three Middle East countries.

"At least 1,750 migrant workers employed in the Middle East will be repatriated and for this purpose the government will send aircraft to the Middle East starting on November 9," he said.

Iskander admitted that Indonesia's working relations with Middle Eastern countries in manpower matters were "not so good", adding: "Improvements will in the first place have to make in the recruitment and training systems, provision of health services, transportation to airports and eventually in the workers' protection in destination countries to prevent the recurrence of abuses."