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New bill to protect Indonesian migrant workers passed into law
Jakarta Globe - October 26, 2017
The new law revised one that had been in place for about 13 years and deemed still too weak to tackle serious problems that often face the migrant workers, including human trafficking.
The law seeks to improve cooperation between central and regional governments in finding work for Indonesian migrant workers and protecting them once they are offered a job, lawmaker Dede Yusuf from the Democratic Party said.
"[This law] will allow us to do more to protect our workers overseas," the chairman of the House of Representatives commission overseeing manpower said. "It is the state's duty to guarantee the rights of Indonesian migrant workers without any discrimination."
The new law makes mandatory an improved social insurance and competency training for migrant workers as well as integrated and simplified administrative services.
The government is also expected to issue a regulation detailing the implementation of the law, lawmaker Saleh Daulay from the National Mandate Party (PAN) said.
"We hope to issue this regulation soon since the [migrant] workers have been waiting for a long time for this new law to be passed," Saleh said.
Indonesian lawmakers adopted the 1990 United Nations Migrant Workers Convention in 2012.
Source: http://jakartaglobe.id/news/new-bill-protect-indonesian-migrant-workers-passed-law/.
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