INDONESIA’S MIGRANT WORKERS AND OVERSEAS LABOR POLICY
ABSTRACT: Demographically,
Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world, yet international
migration is a meager issues and only recently becoming a hot policy debates on
the problem of migrant workers protection. The huge demand for domestic workers
since the mid 1980s from the Gulf countries, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong,
continue unabated, increasingly creates tensions between the state and the
civil societies, as
many migrant workers exposed to exploitation and human right abuses. The
center of the tension lays on the wide discrepancy between the policy to
bolster the overseas labor and the failure of the state in providing a proper
regulation in which protection for migrant workers is secured. To understand
the current problems of overseas labor policy in Indonesia is necessary to
trace the relationship between migration and the state and the history of state
policy on migration. Assessing the role of stakeholders in this migration
industry is important in able to understand the apparently lack of grasp and
continuously reactionary and ad hock nature of the policy and related
regulations.
Penulis: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo,
Lilis Mulyani
Kode Jurnal: jpantropologidd130093
