DIGITALIZED SYSTEM OF SUPERVISION OF MIGRANT WORKERS FOR LEGAL PROTECTION AND LEGAL CERTAINTY

Abstract

The Indonesian Migrant Worker Protection Agency (BP2MPI), previously known as the National Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI), is a non-departmental government agency in Indonesia that has the function of implementing policies in the field of placement and protection of Indonesian workers. The existence of this agency has hopes for the community, especially Indonesian Migrant Workers to obtain legal certainty and legal protection in several countries in the world that employ. A Migrant worker is a substitute term for Indonesian Migrant Workers (TKI) which has been officially used under Law Number 17 of 2017 concerning Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers. Goals of Indonesian Migrant Workers who work in several countries in the world have great hopes of fulfilling the necessities of a decent life while at the same time improving the economy for themselves and their families considering the wages or salaries offered are higher than in Indonesia. The obstacle for Indonesian Migrant Workers are that often sending Migrant Workers is still constrained by the large number of companies sending Indonesian Migrant Workers who are not official so that legal protection and legal certainty for Indonesian Migrant Workers have not been fully fulfilled. Based on the results of observations and analysis, another obstacle is that supervision from the Government has not been maximized and the digitization system for monitoring Indonesian migrant workers has not been implemented in various countries to supervise these Indonesian Migrant Workers.

The digitalization system is significantly important to be implemented by the Government to provide legal certainty and legal protection for Indonesian migrant workers so that supervision can be maximized by the Government and Non-Governmental Institutions that assist in supervising Indonesian Migrant Workers.