Proposing an Integrative-Progressive Model in Handling Troubled Indonesian Overseas Workers in the Transit Area (A Socio-legal Research in Tanjung Pinang City, Provinsi Kepulauan Riau)

Shahrullah, Rina Shahriyani and Syarief, Elza (2015) Proposing an Integrative-Progressive Model in Handling Troubled Indonesian Overseas Workers in the Transit Area (A Socio-legal Research in Tanjung Pinang City, Provinsi Kepulauan Riau). Proposing an Integrative-Progressive Model in Handling Troubled Indonesian Overseas Workers in the Transit Area (A Socio-legal Research in Tanjung Pinang City, Provinsi Kepulauan Riau). pp. 1-17. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Tanjung Pinang City of the Riau Islands Province (Provinsi Kepulauan Riau) is a transit area for the troubled Indonesian overseas workers from Singapore and Malaysia. The Indonesian National Board for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Workers (Badan Nasional Penempatan dan Perlindungan Tenaga Kerja Indonesia/BNP2TKI) reported that the placement of Indonesian overseas workers from January to November 2014 were 390,473 persons. Most of the workers selected Malaysia (116.210 persons) as the destination country followed by Taiwan (75,087 persons), Saudi Arabia (41,311 persons), Hongkong (32,114 persons), and Singapore (27,870 persons). Most of them worked as domestic workers (122,406 persons), caregivers (44,183 persons), and plantation workers (43,792 persons). 15,105 troubled Indonesian overseas workers were deported from January to November 2014 via Tanjung Pinang City. Previous research revealed that citizens of Tanjung Pinang City criticized the treatments given by the local government to the deported workers on the ground that they were not the citizens of the Riau Islands Province, yet the local government has to provide shelters and funds prior to returning them to their home towns. The treatments for the deported workers in the transit area have also raised pros and cons among the stakeholders who are in charge of handling the deported workers. This circumstance may not occur if a special regional regulation of the Riau Islands Province has been issued to govern the troubled Indonesian overseas workers in the transit area. Due to this vacuum of law, this research aims to establish a mechanism in handling the deported workers in the transit area by designing an integrative-progressive model which can be adopted by the stakeholders. The model is to link the legal and non- legal issues and as well as to provide the collaborative mechanisms for the stakeholders based on the approaches of the integrative and progressive legal theory.

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