This was conveyed by Hindun in response to the preparation of the Bill on the Third Amendment to Law No. 18 of 2017 concerning the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI). It is known that the DPR Baleg Expert Team has submitted the preparation of amendments to the PMI Law at the DPR RI Building, Thursday, January 30, yesterday.

According to Hindun, high diplomacy is needed to solve the problems of migrant workers.

"We demand the government to carry out high diplomacy, as President Gus Dur did before. Gus Dur once thwarted and postponed the execution of death to one of the migrant workers in Saudi Arabia," said Hindun, Friday, January 31.

The PKB legislator from the Central Java II electoral district said Gus Dur had carried out high-level diplomacy to the King of Saudi Arabia Fahd bin Abdul Aziz to suspend the death penalty for migrant workers from Madura Siti Zaenab in 1999. Gus Dur's diplomacy was successful and the execution of Zaenab was finally postponed.

Apart from Zaenab, Gus Dur also saved the lives of migrant workers from Central Lombok, NTB, Adi bin Asnawi from the death penalty in 2005. Even though Gus Dur was no longer president at that time, he still tried to lobby Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Gus Dur's lobby was successful and Adi was finally released, then returned to Indonesia.

According to Hindun, Gus Dur's high-level diplomacy can be imitated by the Indonesian government in protecting and solving the problem of migrant workers in various countries. He said high-level diplomacy is often carried out by the highest leaders in neighboring countries, such as the Philippines in protecting their workers.

“Pemimpin tertinggi di sana sering melakukan high diplomacy dengan negara penempatan pekerja migran. High diplomacy sangat penting dilakukan untuk melindungi pekerja migran Indonesia,” beber Hindun.

Hindun juga menyoroti persoalan tenaga kerja yang dikirim dan ditempatkan melalui skema goverment to goverment (G to G), perjanjian antara pemerintah dengan pemerintah negara tujuan penempatan. Salah satunya penempatan pekerja di Korea Selatan.

Most of the troubled migrant workers in South Korea are procedural workers, G to G. But then in the middle of the road, they have problems. Some fled and faced other problems," said Hindun.


The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)