Anies Calls The Government Must Collaborate With Activists To Protect PMI

Presidential candidate number 1, Anies Baswedan, assesses that the government must collaborate with activists to protect Indonesian migrant workers (PMI) who are caught in problems in various countries, ranging from legal issues, harassment, to mental health.

Collaboration with activists, he said, is important because knowledge of PMI problems in working countries tends to be widely known by activists.

"It must be involved by migrant worker activists, those who know the holes of trouble in protecting migrant workers," Anies said in a debate between the five presidential candidates for the 2024 General Election in Jakarta, Sunday night.

Anies admitted that he saw the great knowledge of PMI after he met PMIs who worked in Malaysia when they came to PMI Village in Wonosobo Regency, Central Java.

Therefore, he considered, having authority in the government does not mean having great knowledge about PMI problems so far.

The government has indeed protected PMI from before departure until workers arrived at the destination country. However, the former governor of DKI Jakarta who completed his tenure said that as long as PMIs worked in people's countries, there were many twists and turns, where the government and bureaucratic officials did not know much.

"With the authority of the state and the knowledge that activists have, we can execute to protect and ensure PMI can live and work calmly there," he said.

The KPU has determined three pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates participating in the 2024 presidential election, namely Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar with serial number 1, Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka number 2, and Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud number 3.

After the first debate of the 2024 presidential election on December 12, 2023, the second debate on December 22, 2023, the third debate on January 7, 2024, and the fourth debate on January 21, 2024, the KPU held a fifth debate at the Jakarta Convention Center.

The final debate for the 2024 presidential election is also the third debate that brings together presidential and KPU candidates to organize it with the theme including education, health, employment, culture, information technology, and social welfare and inclusion.