ASPATAKI MEMBERS DOMINATE 70% PLACEMENT OF INDONESIAN MIGRANT WORKERS TO COUNTRIES ACROSS ASIA PACIFIC REGION.
Kamis, 28 Mei 2020
Responsible Business Conduct for Safe Labour Migration in ASEAN
- JAKARTA (AC) - In the Indonesian migrant workers placement scene, members of ASPATAKI, a new association established just 5 years ago, consists of over one hundred migrant workers supplier companies that have already taken a big role in occupying almost 70% of the total placement of migrant workers from Indonesia to overseas. As part of Asian Associations Alliance, it actively participates in discussions with international organizations and also local and international NGOs. Its members are mostly specialized in placement to Asian countries ( placement to Middle East region or other Gulf Countries has never been done).
DATA OF MIGRANT WORKERS FAILED TO BE PLACED ABROAD DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Acting Director General of Placement and Market Development for Migrant Workers, Mr. Aris Wahyudi, along with Placement Deputy of The National Migrant Workers Placement Board (BP2MI) conducted a press release through bisnis.com on the 13th of April 2020, with the topic ~ Each Migrant Workers Have The Right to Receive Pre-Working Card, in which was brought up that there're at least 32,000 migrant workers who were failed to be placed abroad due to the pandemic, and out of the 32,000 migrant workers, 22,000 of them were those who were processed through companies who are members of ASPATAKI, the rest being in companies under other associations. “These are real or factual numbers”, said Saiful.
ASPATAKI MEMBERS HAS THE BIGGEST RATIO ON NUMBERS OF PLACEMENT OF INDONESIAN MIGRANT WORKERS TO ASIA PACIFIC NATIONS.
As partners, ASPATAKI supports government’s effort in providing protection and increasing the welfare of migrant workers and their families, to equip them with required skills provided by the training centers of the members of ASPATAKI. We are confident that the level of quality, both physically and mentally, are well assured, mentioned Saiful.ASPATAKI is partnering with all the Indonesian Government Representatives Offices, the Labour Department in placement countries across Asia Pacific nations, as well as with agencies and their respective associations.
Saiful also hopes for any foreign employment agencies who are interested to create partnership with his members to place quality and skilled migrant workers in Asia Pacific nations to contact ASPATAKI directly, and guarantees to provide help and solution in the case of any problems, as according to its code of conduct, which will warn and penalize its member(s) for whoever breaches it.
Alliance of Asian Associations of
Overseas Employment Service Providers (OESPAAA)
PLACEMENT of MIGRANT WORKERS to CHINA IS STILL CONSIDERED AS ILLEGAL
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In midst of concerns regarding the oversupply of migrant worker candidates bound to work in current placement nations, Saiful sees a good opportunity for Indonesian government to legally open a new placement destination such as China, as there is a big demand among migrant workers, especially for those who had previously worked in Taiwan and Singapore, and added to the fact that workers will receive high salary, which will appease the current issue of 5,000 Chinese workers planning to work in Indonesia. In an effort to have 10 times the current number of our fully skilled Indonesian migrant workers to work in China, ASPATAKI has sent a letter number 051/DPP/V/2020, on 20th of May, 2020, to Maritime and Investment Minister, General (ret.) Luhut B Panjaitan, hoping that he will help to open China market for our migrant workers to be able to work there in the near future, said Saiful.
