scholarly journals The Consignment of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia and Its Resilience: Examining the Impacts of Indonesia’s Moratorium Policy (2011-2015).

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Witri Elvianti ◽  
Jihan Djafar Sidik
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Protection Mechanism ◽  
The Government ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

Although Indonesian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, particularly at informal sectors, have exponentially increased in last decades, most of the time,  they have also faced several constraints such as the lack of protection that supposedly addressed by the Government of Indonesia (GoI) through Indonesian embassy, limited numbers of regulations that could protect the Indonesian migrant workers from the Government of Saudi Arabia, due to the absence of Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries. Such complex circumstances made the position of Indonesian migrant workers worsened due to their disability in gaining their rights. In the implementation process, the GoI’s protection has not been maximal in ensuring the safety of their workers abroad. The situation reached the peak when the death penalty for Ruyati binti Satubi was conducted by Government of Saudi Arabia without any initiatives informing Indonesian authority prior to the execution. Consequently the former President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, declared a moratorium policy during the cabinet meeting on June 23, 2011, in order to improve the protection mechanism of Indonesian migrant domestic workers. In milieu of this issue, the researchers attempted at analyzing the impacts of such a policy. The analysis was based on national interest theory. In the context of Indonesian migrant domestic workers, this study came to argue that the moratorium policy could be seen as a manifestation of political commitment from Indonesia’s government perceiving the protection of Indonesian migrant workers is high in the list.

scholarly journals PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM PEKERJA MIGRAN PENATA LAKSANA RUMAH TANGGA (PLRT) DI LUAR NEGERI OLEH NEGARA DITINJAU DARI KONSEP TANGGUNG JAWAB NEGARA

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Koesrianti
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Domestic Work ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
State Responsibility ◽  
Vulnerable Group ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
National Jurisdiction ◽  
The Government ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

<p align="center"><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p><em>This research discusses the legal protection of migrant workers, especially, women migrant domestic workers. Due to the nature and characteristic of domestic work, the migrant domestic workers are subject to violence, abuses, discrimination and unfair treatment when they are in destination countries. The most vulnerable group among migrant workers is women migrant domestic workers because they are women. Accordingly, the government and the stakeholders should give protection to the women migrant domestic workers regardless their status (legal or illegal) as they are stay beyond national jurisdiction of sending state.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>legal protection, Migrant workers, domestic, state responsibility.</em></p><p align="center"><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>Penelitian ini mengkaji bentuk-bentuk perlindungan hukum yang diberikan kepada pekerja migran PLRT di luar negeri. Pekerja migran PLRT karena karakteristiknya merupakan kelompok yang sangat rentan terhadap perlakuan <em>abuse</em>, diskriminatif, dan ketidak-adilan ketika bekerja di luar negeri. Kelompok paling rentan diantara pekerja migrant adalah TKW PLRT karena keperempuannya. Konsep tanggung jawab Negara mengharuskan pemerintah memberikan perlindungan kepada TKI terlepas dari status mereka, baik legal atau illegal karena mereka berada diluar yurisdiksi Negara pengirim</p><p><strong>Kata Kunci: </strong>Perlindungan hukum, TKI, PLRT, Tanggung Jawab Negara.</p>

scholarly journals PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM PEKERJA MIGRAN PENATA LAKSANA RUMAH TANGGA (PLRT) DI LUAR NEGERI OLEH NEGARA DITINJAU DARI KONSEP TANGGUNG JAWAB NEGARA

2015 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koesrianti ,
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Domestic Work ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
State Responsibility ◽  
Vulnerable Group ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
National Jurisdiction ◽  
The Government ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

<h4>Abstract</h4> <p><strong><em> </em></strong></p> <p><em>This research discusses the legal protection of migrant workers, especially, women migrant domestic workers. Due to the nature and characteristic of domestic work, the migrant domestic workers are subject to violence, abuses, discrimination and unfair treatment when they are in destination countries. The most vulnerable group among migrant workers is women migrant domestic workers because they are women. Accordingly, the government and the stakeholders should give protection to the women migrant domestic workers regardless their status (legal or illegal) as they are stay beyond national jurisdiction of sending state.</em><em> </em></p> <p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>legal protection, Migrant workers, domestic, state responsibility.</em><em> </em></p> <p><em> </em></p> <p><em> </em></p> <h3>Abstrak</h3> <p>Penelitian ini mengkaji bentuk-bentuk perlindungan hukum yang diberikan kepada pekerja migran PLRT di luar negeri. Pekerja migran PLRT karena karakteristiknya merupakan kelompok yang sangat rentan terhadap perlakuan <em>abuse</em>, diskriminatif, dan ketidak-adilan ketika bekerja di luar negeri. Kelompok paling rentan diantara pekerja migrant adalah TKW PLRT karena keperempuannya. Konsep tanggung jawab Negara mengharuskan pemerintah memberikan perlindungan kepada TKI terlepas dari status mereka, baik legal atau illegal karena mereka berada diluar yurisdiksi Negara pengirim</p> <p><strong>Kata Kunci: </strong>Perlindungan hukum, TKI, PLRT, Tanggung Jawab Negara.</p>

scholarly journals Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers and Sustainable Development Goals: Feasible Policy and Practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 09017
Author(s):  
Utami Dewi Anggia ◽  
Rezasyah Teuku
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Government ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

The issue of Indonesian migrant domestic workers is still a homework that need to be prioritized by the government. The problematic management, include the lack of legal-based protection, have resulted in many unfortunate cases and conditions of migrant workers. Many of them are prone to unequal treatments, mental and physical abuse, even human trafficking. The Indonesian government currently addresses a policy of zero migrant worker roadmap, which has brought up many critics mentioning how the policy is discriminatory and violates the rights to economy of the workers. By using a qualitative approach of method, this paper aims to discuss the possibility of solutions that will generate an inclusive framework of to eradicate inequalities posed by Indonesian migrant domestic workers, by briefly highlighting the case of Sumba Barat Daya as the second largest migrant workers sender in Nusa Tenggara Timur. Under the Sustainable Development Goals framework, from policy approach, this paper suggests the government of Indonesia to focus more on the skill and capacity building of migrant workers, by also imposing the social protection approach towards them.

Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Hak-Hak Pekerja Migran : Studi Kasus Satinah Sebagai Mantan Tki Di Arab Saudi

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Rahma Kusuma Wardani ◽  
Endah Pujiastuti ◽  
Tri Mulyani
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
The Government

<p>Berbagai kasus yang menimpa para pekerja migran Indonesia menunjukkan betapa rendahnya perlindungan hukum yang didapat oleh mereka. Padahal Pemerintah telah mengeluarkan berbagai kebijakan terkait dengan perlindungan pekerja migran. Hal inilah yang mendorong penulis untuk melakukan penelitian tentang Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Hak-Hak Pekerja Migran : Studi  Kasus Satinah sebagai Mantan TKI di Arab Saudi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perlindungan hukum terhadap hak-hak pekerja migran dalam kasus Satinah, kendala dan upaya Pemerintah Indonesia mengatasi hak-hak pekerja migran dalam kasus Satinah. Metode pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah yuridis normatif, dengan tipe penelitian <em>deskriptif analitis</em>, sampel ditentukan dengan teknis <em>purposive sampling</em>, data yang digunakan adalah data sekunder dan data primer yang dikumpulkan melalui wawancara, pustakaan, dan obsevasi yang kemudian dianalisis secara kualitatif. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dan pembahasan dapat disimpulkan bahwa perlindungan hukum terhadap hak-hak pekerja migran dalam kasus Satinah sudah dilakukan dengan cukup baik oleh Pemerintah Indonesia meskipun awalnya sangat terlambat dalam menangani kasus ini tapi semua itu dapat terbayarkan dengan keberhasilan dapat membebaskan Satinah dari hukuman mati berupa hukuman pancung. Kendala Pemerintah dalam kasus Satinah adalah hukum yang berbeda karena beda negara dan upaya Pemerintah dalam kasus Satinah adalah pengoptimalan pemenuhan hak-hak Satinah sebagai pekerja migran.</p><p> </p><p><em>Various cases involving Indonesian migrant workers shows how low the legal protection acquired by them. Though the Government has issued a number of policies related to the protection of migrant workers. This has led the authors to conduct research on the Legal Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers' Rights: Case Studies Satinah as a former migrant worker in Saudi Arabia. This study aims to determine the legal protection of the rights of migrant workers in the case</em><em> of</em><em> Satinah, constraints and the Indonesian Government's efforts to overcome the rights of migrant workers in Satinah.</em><em> </em><em>Met</em><em>hod of </em><em>approach used in this </em><em>research </em><em>is </em><em>juridical </em><em>normative, with the type of </em><em>research is descriptive analytical</em><em>, the sample is determined by technical purposive sampling, the data used is secondary data and primary data were collected through interviews, the library, and the observation is then analyzed qualitatively. Based on the results of research and discussion can be concluded that the legal protection of the rights of migrant workers in the case Satinah</em><em> have</em><em> done quite well by the Government of Indonesia although initially very late in dealing with this case but it can be paid off with the success can free Satinah of the death penalty as a punishment beheaded. Government constraints in the case Satinah are different laws for different countries and efforts of the Government in the case Satinah is optimization Satinah fulfillment of the rights of migrant workers.</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals Politik Hukum Perlindungan Tenaga Kerja Indonesia Fase Purna Bekerja

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizky Dian Bareta ◽  
Budi Ispriyarso
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
The State ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The Government ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

Ketimpangan antara angkatan kerja dan lapangan pekerjaan di Indonesia memaksa para pencari pekerjaan merambah lapangan pekerjaan di negara lain, namun Tenaga Kerja Indonesia di luar negeri mayoritas merupakan pekerja pada sektor-sektor dengan risiko tinggi. Negara seharusnya memberikan perlindungan secara menyeluruh kepada tenaga kerja di luar negeri mulai dari fase sebelum bekerja, selama bekerja, dan fase purna bekerja. Permasalahan dari perlindungan Tenaga Kerja Indonesia adalah bagaimana politik hukum Indonesia dalam perlindungan Tenaga Kerja Indonesia fase purna bekerja. Perbaikan secara menyeluruh dari instrumen politik hukum perlindungan Tenaga Kerja Indonesia diharapkan untuk mewujudkan target Pemerintah untuk Zero Tenaga Kerja Indonesia Pembantu Rumah Tangga dapat terwujud. Legal Politics Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Full-Phase of Work The gap between workforces and jobs in Indonesia forces job seekers to look for job opportunities in other countries, but most of Indonesian migrant workers work on the high risk sectors. The state should provide comprehensive protection to migrant workers from the pre-work phase, during the work, and the full-work phase. The problem of the protection of Indonesian migrant workes is how Indonesian political law in the protection of migrant workers on the full-phase of work. The overall improvement on the instrument of legal political of protection of  Indonesian labor is expected to realize in order to achieve the government target for zero Indonesian migrant domestic workers.

scholarly journals THE ENDURING VULNERABILITY OF MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS IN EUROPE

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clíodhna Murphy
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Employment Law ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration Law ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

AbstractWhile the rights of domestic workers are expanding in international law, including through the adoption of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention in 2011, migrant domestic workers remain particularly vulnerable to employment-related abuse and exploitation. This article explores the intersection of the employment law and migration law regimes applicable to migrant domestic workers in the United Kingdom, France and Ireland. The article suggests that the precarious immigration status of many migrant domestic workers renders employment protections, such as they exist in each jurisdiction, largely illusory in practice for this group of workers. The labour standards contained in the Domestic Workers Convention, together with the recommendations of the UN Committee on Migrant Workers on the features of an appropriate immigration regime for migrant domestic workers, are identified as providing an alternative normative model for national regulatory frameworks.

ANALISIS KEBIJAKAN PEMERINTAH INDONESIA ATAS MORATORIUM TENAGA KERJA INDONESIA KE TIMUR TENGAH PADA TAHUN 2015

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Dhiu ◽  
Ardli Johan Kusuma
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
National Interest ◽  
The State ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Indonesian Government ◽  
East Region ◽  
The Government ◽  
Middle East Region

ABSTRACTThe Existance of Indonesian Workers in the Middle East, is very beneficial in terms of foreign exchange earnings. Despite the high rate of remittances generated, the Indonesian government must also implement a moratorium on migrant workers sending policies to the Middle East in 2015, which is feared that this could cause a reduction in the amount of remittances, secifically for the Middle East region. Here, the writer will discuss in dept why the government should carry out the moratorium policy of migrant workers to the Middle East in 2015, while the gorvernment  also know that the existance of the overseas migrant workers woud benefit economically. The writer see that, as the main actor, the state is obliged to provide protection for all its citizens whwrever they are.Keywords: Indonesia Workers, Moratorium, National Interest, Protecting Citizens. ABSTRAKKeberadaan Tenaga Kerja Indonesia di Timur Tengah, sangatlah menguntungkan dalam hal pendapatan devisa. Dibalik tingginya angka remitansi yang dihasilkan, namun pemerintah Indonesia juga harus menerapkan kebijakan moratorium pengiriman TKI ke Timur Tengah Tahun 2015, yang mana kebijakan tersebut dikhawatirkan dapat menyebabkan penurunan jumlah remitansi, secara khusus untuk kawasan Timur Tengah. Di sini, penulis akan membahas secara mendalam mengapa pemerintah harus melakukan kebijakan moratorius TKI ke Timur tengah Tahun 2015, sedangkan pemerintah juga tahu bahwa keberadaan TKI luar negeri tentu memberi keuntungan secara ekonomi. Penulis menggunakan sudut pandang realisme, dengan memakai teori kepentingan nasional, sehingga akan dibahas secara  mendalam terkait permasalahan yang ada. Dalam penelitian tersebut, penulis melihat bahwa, sebagai aktor utama, negara wajib memberikan perlindungan bagi seluruh warga negaranya di mana pun berada.Kata Kunci: Tenaga Kerja Indonesia, Moratorium, Kepentingan Nasional, Melindungi Warga Negara.

scholarly journals Facebook, Polymedia, Social Capital, and a Digital Family of Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers: A Case Study of The Voice of Singapore’s Invisible Hands

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-83
Author(s):  
Adriana Rahajeng Mintarsih
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Dominant Negative ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

Rarely do female migrant domestic workers (MDWs) get a chance to narrate their own migration experience. Voice of Singapore’s Invisible Hands (or The Voice), which started as a literary community on Facebook, aims to reshape the dominant—negative—discourse on migrant workers, especially Indonesian MDWs, by providing access to their literary work. In a transnational migration setting, Facebook has been used as a tool to maintain people’s relations with their families and friends back home, as well as for making new friends. Connections gained between individuals become a form of social capital where people build social networks and establish norms of reciprocity and a sense of trustworthiness. In the early establishment of The Voice, Facebook helped its initiator gain social capital. Ultimately, this social capital benefts the community and its members. Over the course of The Voice’s development, other social media platforms, namely WhatsApp, Skype, and email, have been used in addition to Facebook because they offer a different set of features and affordances of privacy and frequency. This practice of switching from one media to another is an illustration of polymedia, in which all media operate as an integrated structure and each is defned in relation to other media. This study, which focused on the relation of Facebook, polymedia, and social capital in the context of The Voice, used integrated online and offine qualitative data-gathering methodologies. The study found that Facebook initially helped both the community, which began as a learning space for Indonesian MDWs who wanted to narrate their stories about their home and family, and its members in their efforts to reshape the negative dominant discourse on migrant workers. It was the affordances of polymedia, however, that paved the way for the formation later on of a digital family in which the members provide emotional support for each other, similar to what family and close friends do.

scholarly journals Legal Protection Model for Indonesian Migrant Workers

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (02) ◽  
pp. 291-304
Author(s):  
Anis Widyawati
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government

The emergence of several large cases of migrant workers in Malaysia and Singapore as well as in several Middle Eastern countries, especially Saudi Arabia, made all the nation's components flinch. Many people argue that the problem occurs because of the low level of education of migrant workers. There are also those who say that this problem occurs because employers of Indonesian labor services companies (Pengerah Jasa Penyalur Tenaga Kerja Indonesia, PJTKI, now called Perusahaan Penyalur Tenaga Kerja Indonesia Swasta, PPTKIS) are not nationally minded and only pursue profit (profit-oriented). There were also those who argued that the cases of migrant workers occurred due to the inactivity of regulative and punitive functions of the Government of the Republic of Indonesia. Based on the background above, the problem can be formulated is how the urgency of legal protection for Indonesian migrant workers abroad and how the legal protection model for Indonesian migrant workers abroad. Research carried out at BP3TKI and the Semarang Manpower and Transmigration Office underlined that legal protection for Indonesian migrant workers abroad is very important. The urgency in legal protection due to fulfillment of the rights of victims who work legally abroad but also cannot be fully implemented properly, due to differences in legal systems with migrant workers recipient countries that do not necessarily want to protect the rights of migrant workers who experience treatment not please from their own citizens. The migrant workers who work illegally the government has not been able to fully protect the rights of victims who have experienced criminal acts. The legal protection model for migrant workers currently emphasizes the fulfillment of victims’ rights who work legally abroad, such as obtaining legal assistance from a local lawyer appointed by the ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia in the country receiving the migrant workers, mentoring by psychologists and clergy, bringing the families of victims, compensation, and insurance claims. And at the same time, for migrant workers who work illegally the government has not been able to fully protect the rights of the victims.

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