East Lombok. W Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA) - The Manpower Ministry is striving incessantly to expand a safe and comfortable work market that is protected from various negative impacts and discrimination for Indonesian migrant workers (PMI).
In confronting manpower development challenges, the ministry has also prepared nine leaps as strategic, transformative, and innovative steps, Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah stated during the 2022 International Migrants Day commemoration here on Sunday.
One of the leaps is the expansion of the overseas work market, she highlighted.
In practice, the ministry has undertaken various work programs related to PMI's placement and protection.
This include the formation of 45 One-Stop Integrated Service-Indonesian Migrant Workers (LTSA-PMI) in provinces, districts, cities, and regions considered to be PMI's enclave.
The LTSA-PMI is formed with the objective of providing effective, efficient, transparent, fast, and quality service without discrimination.
The ministry has also formed 503 Productive Migrant Villages (Desmigratif).
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It is a program initiated by the ministry as an integrated migrant workers' enclave villages handling concept by involving related institutions to empower, protect, and serve migrant workers and their families starting from villages.
"The goal is to provide a safe migration service, community parenting, productive business, and cooperatives," Fauziyah explained.
The ministry's other effort includes the formation of 25 PMI Task Forces in PMI's place of origin and debarkation and embarkation regions.
This aims to provide protection and initial action in relation to PMI's placement and protection.
Meanwhile, regulation reformation was undertaken through the creation of Law No. 18 of 2017 on PMI Protection with all of its derivative regulations.
According to Fauziyah, this regulation and work programs reformation is already aligned with the values contained in three key messages produced from the UN's High-level Dialogue held on September 14-15, 2006.
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The first involves international migration as a developing phenomenon that can provide positive contribution for development in the countries of origin and destination as long as it is supported with the correct policies.
The second emphasizes that respect for all migrants' basic rights and freedom is very important to reap the benefit from international migration.
Meanwhile, the third key concerns acknowledging the importance of strengthening international cooperation in international migration bilaterally, regionally, and globally.
"In line with these key messages, the ministry has also undertaken reformation of Indonesian migrant workers' placement and protection management, before, during, and after working," Fauziyah remarked.
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