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August 27, 2025 | 01:53 am
Secretary of the Directorate General of the Indonesian Ministry of Manpower's Migrant Worker Protection (KPPMI), Dayan Victor Imanuel, believes that astir of the problems faced by migrant workers are owed to non-procedural departures.
"Due to non-procedural departures, workers bash not person maximum extortion from the state," helium said successful a nationalist treatment entitled Revision of the Law connected Migrant Worker Protection and the Future of Indonesian Migrant Worker Protection astatine the Office of the National Commission connected Violence against Women connected Monday, August 25, 2025.
The Indonesian authorities is pushing for a revision of Law No. 18 of 2017 concerning the Protection of Migrant Workers. Victor said that the ministry volition absorption connected improving regulations regarding overseas internships and the mechanics for enactment competency certification successful the revision.
Chairperson of the National Commission connected Violence against Women, Maria Ulfah Anshor, stated that the authorities is obliged to support each Indonesian migrant workers (PMIs), some ineligible and illegal. Regardless of their departure being ceremonial oregon informal, she emphasized that PMIs indispensable beryllium protected portion they are Indonesian citizens.
"Even if they are amerciable and marque mistakes, it's true. But still, successful the discourse of fulfilling their close to life, the authorities indispensable guarantee that they person a decent life," said Ulfah.
Ulfah criticized the government's inclination to lavation their hands of the unit experienced by illegally departing PMIs. She highlighted the rampant unit and quality rights violations that hap among migrant workers, particularly pistillate migrant workers who are predominantly employed successful the home sector.
According to the commission's records, hundreds of cases of unit hap annually among pistillate migrant workers. The forms of unit they acquisition vary, ranging from physical, psychological, sexual, economic, to quality trafficking. This unit continues from the recruitment signifier until their return.
She hopes that the revision volition not lone absorption connected method changes, but volition genuinely supply substantive extortion based connected quality rights and sex justice. "The anticipation is that this revision tin code the structural vulnerabilities faced by migrant women astatine each stage, portion ensuring that their information and dignity are placed supra economical interests," she said.
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