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The Task Force on Migrant Workers |
This task force is under the Sub-commission of Education and R&D, and was formed in February 2008 as per instruction of the Plenary to implement the advocacy strategy on migrant workers. The task force is chaired by Sri Wiyanti Eddyono with a Steering Committee and a Support Team in support. The Steering Committee is comprised of Arimbi Heroepoetri, Kamala Chandrakirana, Neng Dara Affiah dan Sjamsiah Achmad; while the Support Team is comprised of Henny, Yeni, Patricia Yocie dan Yolanda.
The Migrant Worker Task Force aims to:
- Develop a mechanism for monitoring on the violation against the human rights of the woman migrant workers, and to document the monitoring process;
- Improve the quality of the government service for the woman migrant workers, especially the victims;
- Advocate on national legislations regarding the migrant workers, especially the women, including the measures to prevent further violations of the their human rights;
- Conduct national and international advocacy efforts on the human rights of the migrant workers, especially the domestic workers;
- Increase the public and state participation in urging the ratification of the Migrant Convention of 1990.
The task force has conducted national and international level advocacy regarding the human rights of the migrant workers. Several notable examples are the Letter to the Indonesian Consular in Hong Kong no. 2258/IA/XII/2007 on the change of agency for woman migrant workers, propositions sent to the Asia Pacific Forum on National Human Rights Institutions, various discussions with the governmental agencies and the NGOs on the state service towards the woman migrant workers, who fall victims to violation of rights, monitoring on the cases of violation of migrant workers’ human rights, etc.
To date, the task force is building a cooperative effort with the Human Rights National Commission to develop the gender-sensitive instrument to monitor the violation against the migrant workers’ human rights. This instrument will hopefully become a standard in documenting the violation against migrant workers’ human rights.
