Providing services and protecting the migrant workers should be the main priority of the local government so as to maximize the advantages and minimize the disadvantages of emigration.
July, 2011 |
Palmira Permata Bachtiar, Dhanny Sutopo, Ari Ratna K., Bambang Sulaksono, Agustinus Supriyanto, Endang Sri Rahayu
This edition of the SMERU newsletter discusses the complex problems of the management of migrant workers uncovered in The SMERU Research Institute’s study on decentralization and management of migrant workers in Indonesia.
The article compares and contrasts the scale and composition of workers` outflow and remittance flow from 1994 to 2012 at the national level and in East Java and West Nusa Tenggara--two big migrant-sending provinces.
