International Indonesian Migrant Women Workers

Indonesia is a sending country for international migrant workers, dominated by women. Most of them work as domestic workers that only require a low level of education. The economic reasons are the main factor that drives women in Indonesia to become migrant workers abroad. They find it difficult to work at home as the necessities of life continue to grow. In carrying out their work, women who are migrant workers are more vulnerable than men to various actions that violate human rights and various international agreements relating to migrant workers and employment contracts. This chapter raises the experience of Indonesian women who are migrant workers working abroad based on the feminist perspective. Some Indonesian women who are migrant workers experience violence, sexual harassment, unpaid salaries, do work that is not in accordance with the employment contract, and cannot perform worship in accordance with their religion. This chapter also highlights the consequences that Indonesian women who are migrant workers must face when leaving their families to work abroad.

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The Appropriateness of Conciliation/Mediation for Sexual Harassment Complaints in New Zealand

Victoria University of Wellington Law Review ◽

10.26686/vuwlr.v27i4.6102 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 585

Author(s):

Claire Baylis

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

New Zealand ◽

Sexual Harassment ◽

Dispute Resolution ◽

Employment Contracts ◽

Human Rights Act ◽

Resolution Processes

In this article, Claire Baylis examines the statutory models of mediation/conciliation in the Human Rights Act 1993 and the Employment Contracts Act 1991 which are used for sexual harassment complaints. She argues that the practice of mediating these complaints is inappropriate due to the incompatibility of the cha585he specific characteristics of most sexual harassment complaints. Further, an analysis of the actual dispute resolution provisions under the Acts raises other issues in the sexual harassment context. Finally, the author outlines some possible reforms to dispute resolution processes in this area.

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ANALISIS PENAWARAN TENAGA KERJA WANITA MIGRAN KABUPATEN SUMBAWA

Jurnal TAMBORA ◽

10.36761/jt.v4i1.579 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 79-85

Author(s):

Fitriah Permata Cita ◽

Mujiburrahmat

Keyword(s):

Women Workers ◽

United Arab Emirates ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Migrant Women ◽

Decision To Leave ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

The Government ◽

Work Abroad ◽

The Impact

This study is entitled: "Analysis of the Migrant Women Migrant Workers' Offer". An increase in population from year to year has several logical consequences including an increase in the number of young people and an increase in the workforce. Data from the Central Statistics Agency of Sumbawa Regency shows that from 2014 to 2017 there were an increase in the population of 427,119 people, 431,924 people, 436,599 people and 441,102 people spread in 24 sub-districts. The livelihoods of most of the population (around 52.72%) make a living from the agricultural sector (BPS Sumbawa Regency 2017). The geographical condition of the Sumbawa Regency, where fertility is uneven and rainfall is also insufficient to develop normal agriculture, difficult employment opportunities, inadequate education, minimal skills, lack of venture capital, forces residents (especially women) to choose to try looking for work to become Indonesian workers to various countries including the United Arab Emirates. The purpose of this study are: 1) What is the pattern of supply of female workers from Sumbawa Regency? 2) What factors influence the decision to leave women from Sumbawa Regency to become migrant workers abroad?This research was conducted in 4 districts out of 24 districts. Each subdistrict is taken from 2-3 villages which are the basis for migrant women workers (depending on the number of migrant workers available at the time of the survey). The four subdistricts determined as sampling locations are Sumbawa District, Plampang District, Labuan Badas District and Utan District by using descriptive methods and data collection is done by observation and interview techniques. Determination of respondents is done by purposive sampling technique. The output of this research is knowing the pattern of supply of women workers from Sumbawa Regency and the factors that influence the decision to leave women from Sumbawa Regency to migrant workers abroad, so that it can be seen how the impact of working abroad for women workers and their families and their contribution to Sumbawa Regency in general. Besides that, the output of this research is published in ISSN journals and is used as reference material for Macroeconomics courses.The TKT in this study was started by identifying how the pattern of supply of women workers from Sumbawa Regency and the factors influencing the decision to leave women from Sumbawa Regency to become migrant workers outside the interview method and distributing questionnaires. Knowing the pattern of female labor supply and the factors influencing the decision of women workers to work abroad can be input for the government what will be done to women workers who work abroad and contribute to the Regency of Sumbawa.

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MENTORING THE TROUBLED WOMEN WORKERS AT THE INDONESIAN EMBASSY IN SINGAPORE: Integration of Sufism and Psychology

Teosofia ◽

10.21580/tos.v5i2.1721 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 81

Author(s):

Amin Syukur ◽

Nidhomun Ni'am ◽

Sri Rejeki

Keyword(s):

Women Workers ◽

Population Growth ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Social Mobility ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

Circular Migration ◽

Economic Issues ◽

Work Abroad

There are five components ofdemographics, namely; birth, death, migration, social mobility, and marriage. This study focuses onthe migration of people, commonly called circular migration. Population growth and economic issues, namely the narrowness of employment in Indonesia and the salary promised to be the cause. In Indonesia, this migration is called Indonesian Workers (TKI), both menand women.The majority of Indonesian people's livelihood is asrice farmers, whose results are not sufficient.Naturally, the majority of the Indonesian people become motivated to work abroad. This study focuses on one of the countries in Southeast Asia, namely Singapore with consideration of the number of Indonesian migrant workers who work in Singapore.

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Legal Construction of Structures of Exploitation

Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198825272.003.0011 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 188-204

Author(s):

Virginia Mantouvalou

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Human Rights ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

Domestic Workers ◽

Alternative Conception ◽

Unfair Advantage ◽

Law And Policy ◽

Care Workers ◽

The Law

This chapter argues that the prevailing understanding of workers’ exploitation in law and policy is unjustifiably narrow, and that the concept should not be confined to slavery, servitude, and forced and compulsory labour, nor should it be linked to criminalisation alone. Looking at the concept of exploitation in political philosophy, it advances an alternative conception. The literature analyses exploitation as taking unfair advantage of someone or taking unfair advantage of someone’s vulnerability, and develops opportunistic and structural accounts of exploitation. The focus of this chapter then turns to the role of the law. Building primarily on structural accounts, it examines exploitation that consists in a special vulnerability created by law and the taking advantage of the vulnerability by violating workers’ rights or other human rights. It considers four examples of groups of workers who are in this position: migrant workers, domestic workers, prison workers, and care workers in zero-hours contracts. The chapter suggests that it is not only private employers who have to be held accountable for exploitation, but also state authorities themselves.

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The Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) and Recommendation (No. 201)

International Legal Materials ◽

10.5305/intelegamate.53.1.0250 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 250-266 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Adelle Blackett

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Women Workers ◽

Labor Law ◽

Domestic Workers ◽

International Labour Organization ◽

Decent Work ◽

International Labor

The International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted the Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) (the Domestic Workers Convention or Convention), as supplemented by an accompanying non-binding Recommendation (No. 201), on June 16, 2011. Both instruments were immediately hailed as historic. Two years later, on September 5, 2013, the Domestic Workers Convention entered into force, thus bringing the fifty-three to 100 million predominantly women workers—many of whom are migrants—squarely within the corpus of international labor law, with due attention paid to the specificity of their human rights claims.

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MOTIVASI MASYARAKAT INDONESIA MENJADI TENAGA KERJA INDONESIA (STUDI KASUS PADA MASYARAKAT KECAMATAN PANCENG KABUPATEN GRESIK)

MANAJERIAL ◽

10.30587/manajerial.v5i2.847 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 93

Author(s):

Maulidyah Amalina Rizqi ◽

Wasti Reviandani

Keyword(s):

Migrant Workers ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Market Access ◽

Economic Factor ◽

Level Of Education ◽

Low Level ◽

The People ◽

The Family ◽

Key Informant ◽

Work Abroad

The number of unemployed continue to rise, people can not afford to make business that is caused by bumped capital, skills, and limited market access. In fact, positive benefits for migrant workers who work abroad are also many to get jobs, income, improve welfare and develop skills. This research uses descriptive qualitative method by making the migrant workers and former migrant workers as key informant as well as to extract the data through 3 kinds of way, interview, observation and documentation. From this research, there are many factors that influence the people of Gresik Regency to become migrant workers such as, at least the employment around them, the low level of education, the economic factor of the family, and the environment, whether from the internal family and the environment. Another thing that gained from this research is still many people who become TKI with illegal status.

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STRATEGI PUBLIC RELATIONS PT INDOTAMA KARYA GEMILANG DALAM MENINGKATKAN PEMAHAMAN PROSES PROSEDURAL TENAGA KERJA INDONESIA

Cakrawala - Jurnal Humaniora ◽

10.31294/jc.v19i2.6487 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 237-242

Author(s):

Mareta Puri Rahastine ◽

Silvina Mayasari ◽

Natasha Sasmita

Keyword(s):

Public Relations ◽

Human Trafficking ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Domestic Workers ◽

Employment Training ◽

Special Concern ◽

The Government ◽

Work Abroad ◽

Depth Interviews

Indonesian Workers (TKI) are domestic workers who work abroad. TKI is the largest foreign exchange earner for Indonesia. For official migrant workers, they will receive employment training conducted at the Overseas Employment Training Center which is managed by Indonesian Manpower Services Distributors as their suppliers abroad. Since the height of the news about Human Trafficking / non-procedural human trafficking has become a special concern by the Indonesian government, various ways of prevention are carried out by the government together with related official institutions. The author uses descriptive-qualitative research method, which is done by direct observation and in-depth interviews with the parties concerned, and the data collected later on analysis by descriptive analysis by describing the results of research in the form of research reports. With the holding of campaigns by the government and related institutions such as that carried out by PT Indotama Karya Gemilang about understanding the importance of the procedural process for migrant workers, they can add their understanding of the process procedurally.

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PERUBAHAN PERILAKU EKS TENAGA KERJA WANITA DALAM KONTEKS KOMUNIKASI DAN INTERKONEKSI

AL-TAZKIAH ◽

10.20414/altazkiah.v7i1.652 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 39-59

Author(s):

Irpan Irpan

Keyword(s):

Sexual Harassment ◽

Behavior Change ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

Immigrant Workers ◽

Elementary Level ◽

Government Employees ◽

Level Of Education ◽

Female Workers ◽

The People

This article discusses the behavior change of ex-female workers who lead to ordinary personalities to be extraordinary. Changes in the behavior of ex-migrant workers not only arise when they are in the country they are occupying, but arise from negative treatment factors obtained from the employer, sexual harassment and various other problems. Despite various cases and problems affecting TKW, there are still many people who still wish to become migrant workers. These problems are increasingly interesting when the people of Keruak Sub-district whose professions are diverse. From the results of observations and preliminary studies, it was shown that the professions of the Keruak District residents worked as odd jobs, farmers, fshermen and a small number as traders, government employees and private employees. The level of education of the citizens is more at the Elementary level. In fact, the enthusiasm of the Keruak District community to become immigrant workers abroad is still large. Many people in Keruak Sub-district choose to become Female Laborers as an alternative to improve the economy.

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LEGAL PROTECTION TO THE INDONESIAN MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal ◽

10.14738/assrj.73.7916 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 130-137

Author(s):

Raden Muhammad Mihardi

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

United Nations ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

Migrant Worker ◽

Legal Protection ◽

Legal Issue ◽

Protection Of Human Rights ◽

United Nations Convention ◽

Work Abroad ◽

The Ideal

Purpose of the study: This research aims to describe legal issue related to the protection to Indonesian migrant workers who work abroad and to analyze the existence of migrant workers in Indonesia, viewed from human rights which must get legal protection in constitution and regulation of legal norm and implementation in the applicable legislation. Methodology: This research used the normative research methodology supported by empirical data from the document of institutional study. Main Findings: Research about the protection of human rights in Indonesian Migrant Worker sector is a certainty. It is guaranteed in the international documents (Declaration of Human Rights in the United Nations, Convention of United Nations on Ecosoc and ILO Convention) and national documents (1945 Constitution and Law of Indonesian Migrant Worker Protection). However, in the perspective of its implementation, it has complexity. The protection to Indonesian migrant workers involves many parties, central and regional rules, and culture. This research focuses on the context of Indonesian Migrant Worker protection in a country where they work from the perspective of human rights. This research has novelty since it captures and analyzes issue of Indonesian Migrant Worker in rules and empirical terms based on the database. Applications of this study: this study can be useful for Immigration is one of the instruments to support unity of family with different nationality background. Novelty/Originality of this study: The new in this study that may find the ideal concept of the treasury of jurisprudence, particularly for foreign citizens who legally get married with Indonesian citizens and ex-Indonesian citizens and children born from legitimate mixed marriage with double citizenship.

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Indonesian Migrant Worker Policies and the Vulnerability of Women Migrant Workers to Becoming Trafficking Victims: an Overview of Recent Legislation

Journal of Southeast Asian Human Rights ◽

10.19184/jseahr.v1i2.5844 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 159

Author(s):

Ninik Rahayu

Keyword(s):

Women Workers ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

Migrant Worker ◽

Domestic Workers ◽

Starting Point ◽

Good Starting Point ◽

The Law ◽

Trafficking Victims

This study will provide an overview of how migrant worker protection policies should govern all forms of protection for migrant workers, especially women workers who often face violent abuse as overseas domestic workers in receiving countries, and then problems when they return to their villages. It outlines several laws that deal with problems of abuse associated with migration such as the Law Eradication of Trafficking in Person, and other regulation. Indonesia Government has made a good initiative by amending the policies of migrant workers with the aim of prioritizing protection, including how to harmonize other policies. This is a good starting point for implementing all commitments to the extent that commitments to protect migrant workers, especially women migrant workers who are still vulnerable to violence and threats of trafficking.

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