REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesia has sent 512,168 migrant workers abroad in 2013, increased from 494,609 migrant workers in 2012. It is triggered by the tightening of data collection in migrant workers' placement, such as in Sambas and Entikong. Many workers were not recorded previous years.

"The figure increased 3.6 percent or 17,559 migrant workers compared to previous year," Head of National Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI), Jumhur Hidayat said recently.

Migrant workers who work in formal sector reached 285,197 workers or 56 percent of total number in 2012, while in informal sector reached 226,871 workers.

BNP2TKI will expand its online services to districts in Indonesia. This is an effort to provide workers' protection. Agency has cooperated with Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration in districts and cities in Indonesia. There are 50 planned districts that will implement this system.

BNP2TKI also cooperates with Ministry of Justice and Human Rights related to migrant policy in issuance of passports through online system. Agency also has formed partnership with Ministry of Home Affairs concerned to population administration. BNP2TKI cooperates with some countries to collect data of migrant workers' problems.

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