The Procedural Framework of Indonesian Migrant Workers Pre-Departure

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Long time no see, how are you everybody? I hope you all are well. In this time we will talk about the procedural framework of Indonesian Migrant Workers (IMW) pre- departure. In this note I wrote something more specific about the tasks of private company (we call it PPTKIS/ PJTKI). Yeah, IMW pre- departure depends on PPTKIS.

Maybe you are asking, why it depends on them not the government. Well, if Indonesian want to work in overseas (as domestic worker), so they have to go to PPTKIS first because the government will just approve the departure. The government doesn’t involve directly in any process such as training and medical checkup. Almost all of the process did by PPTKIS.


Based on Law Number 39 Year 2004 Article 31, PPTKIS should be arranged some particular procedures for IMW. These procedures are important to IMW pre- departure. In this note, the procedural for IMW pre- departure is not only come from PPTKIS, but also from the government. It has three phases of obligation included information, education and training for IMW before departure.

Based on Law Number 39 2004 article 31, these are some particular procedural for IMW:

• Education and training.
• Medical physics and mental checkup.
• Personal and travel documents.
• Competence examination.
• Final departure provisioning (in bahasa it called Pembekalan Akhir Pemberangkatan/ PAP).
• Departure.

In January 2013, the President signed new regulation to clarify the role of government in IMW protection during pre- departure.

1.    The government has to be responsible to determine administration standard

• Fulfillment of placement document.
• Decision of placement cost based on country placement and position.
• Decision of job condition in country placement. It included time for working, salary, furlough right, rest time and social security.

2.    The government has to be responsible to prepare technical services.

• Socialization and dissemination of information about working in other countries.
• Quality improvement of IMW candidates.
• Protection of IMW rights. It included death, sickness and physical defect, accident, sexual abuse, torture, and departure failure (not because of IMW mistake).
• Supervision and monitoring of placement process.

Those regulations might seem quite good for IMW protection, but in fact the government doesn’t did all of the regulations. It happens because the government still uses PPTKIS in the major of IMW departure process. So that’s why IMW have many problems.