Factors Influencing Indonesian Women Becomes Migrant Workers
Abstract: This paper describes
how the Indonesian women, despite the fact that some migrant workers are
economically and politically poorly protected by the state, kept the desire to
try their luck as migrant workers abroad. In almost all economic sectors, both
formal and non-formal, many of the Indonesian Female Migrant Workers (FMW/TKW)
living and working abroad did not receive their full rights as workers and
sometimes even lost their basic rights such as that to minimum wage, not having
their wages, withheld or not paid at all as well as refusal to have their
passports returned. Many of the Indonesian TKWs were even physically and
sexually abused by their employers while many female workers were victimized
into becoming forced prostitutes by their sponsors. In addition, some of the
TKW had to face serious problems of protection; many as victims of corrupt
practices such as the imposition of illegal levy by the Indonesian and the
receiving country police and immigration staffs; demands for payments,
extortion of money and confiscation of valuables. Noting that, despite all the
sufferings, the numbers of migrant workers are constantly increasing, this
paper analyzes the causal mechanism of female migration from the socioeconomic
and political context in Indonesia.
Penulis: Mutia Hariyati
Hussein
Kode Jurnal: jphubintdd130124
