REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Migrant Care reminded Indonesian government and the House of Representatives to complete the draft of Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection bill. 

The Executive Directors of Migrant Care Wahyu Susilo said, both state institutions should stop the monopoly of Indonesian migrant workers placements by the Executing Private Indonesian Workers Placement (PPTKIS) and Indonesian Workers Service Provider (PJTKI).

“They have to complete the discussion of Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection bill draft, which emphasizing the Indonesian workers migration management as a state public service,” said him in a press release on Monday (May 1). 

Migrant Care also requested the resolution of many cases of Indonesian workers by emphasizing on fair access for the victims and the Indonesian workers’ families.   

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The government is encouraged to optimize its resources of international diplomacy to complete the instrument of South East Asian migrant workers protection this year. Wahyu said only by completing the draft, Indonesian government would have political and moral legitimacy to encourage new mechanism of migrant workers protection in South East Asian.  

According to Wahyu, various cases of violence to Indonesian migrant workers were still existed. In Malaysia, hundreds of Indonesian workers were treated as slaves in a swift nest processing company, Maxim. 

In Saudi Arabia, there were 300 Indonesian workers locked up. The Foreign Ministry had released the information to public, but unfortunately the cases were not recently solved. 

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