29 September 2014, Arab News The Labor Ministry has rejected Indonesia’s conditions for resuming the recruitment of domestic labor from that country, especially in light of the policy calling for diversification of the sources of employment and ongoing negotiations with other countries, according to ministry sources. The sources said that negotiations between the Ministry of […]
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25 August 2014, Jakarta Globe Jakarta. A former top Indonesian official in charge of migrant worker protection has demanded an investigation into the police chief of East Nusa Tenggara province, or NTT, over indications of police complicity in the alleged trafficking of migrant workers, both within the country and abroad. “I suspect that there’s a
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13 August 2014, Emirates 24/7 UAE Ministry of Interior has rejected the minimum salary of Dh1,500 sought by governments of Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. With the governments of the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka refusing to agree to the standard employment contract for domestic help drawn up by the UAE Ministry of the Interior
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9 August 2014, The Jakarta Post The city administration will close down all unlicensed labor agencies providing jobs overseas due to the rampant extortion of, and violence against, migrant workers. “Overseas job agencies without operation permits will be closed down to help minimize extortion at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and during migrant workers’ journeys to their
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Open Society Foundations: Bassina Farbenblum, Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson, Sarah Paoletti EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report is the first comprehensive study of migrant workers’ access to justice in their country of origin. Using the case study of Indonesian migrant workers who travel to work in the Middle East, it analyses the mechanisms through which those workers may access justice
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16 July 2014, Edi Hardum & Vita A.D. Busyra, Jakarta Globe Jakarta. The manpower ministry has stripped 17 recruitment agencies of their permits following their attempts earlier this month to send as many as 87 migrant workers to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. “We’ll coordinate with police at the Soekarno-Hatta airport to collect
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14 June 2014, Las Vegas Review-Journal AMBON, Indonesia — He was too sick to eat, and Min Min Chan’s chest ached with each breath he sucked. It didn’t matter: The Thai captain warned him to get back on deck and start hauling fish onto the trawler or be tossed overboard. As a 17-year-old slave stuck
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