Guaranteeing Health To PMI Family Education, BP2MI Struggles To Create Endowed Funds

PMI illustration (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI) is struggling to create endowment funds. This is to ensure health to the education of Indonesian migrant workers' families.

"We want in the future Indonesian migrant workers to have endowment funds. So if there are Indonesian migrant workers who are sick, die, want to develop business, and children's education can be facilitated from endowment funds," said Head of BP2MI Benny Rhamdani quoting Antara.

He hopes that through the endowment of migrant workers, the future of Indonesian migrant workers can be more secure.

According to him, the state can set aside some of the foreign exchanges obtained from migrant workers for endowment funds, considering that Indonesian migrant workers are the second largest contributor to foreign exchange in Indonesia with a figure of IDR 159.6 trillion per year.

"Hopefully this can be responded positively, including political support from parliament," he said.

On that occasion Benny also invited all parties to fight the syndicate of placement of illegal migrant workers and the very, very detrimental Crime of Trafficking in Persons (TPPO).

"In the last three years I led BP2MI, 106,000 Indonesian migrant workers were deported from placement countries, 2,400 who returned to the country in coffins, returned in a sick condition, physically disabled, memory loss, mild depression, and severe depression," he said.

Benny admitted that illegal placement actions and TIPs are crimes that are quite difficult to touch by law, because there are people who have protected power.

"I would like to say that this republic is not proclaimed for state officials who are sworn in in the name of God and religion as well as the state constitution to sit at one table with the mafia and syndicates to drink coffee and have lunch together," he said.