Bandarlampung (Antara Bali) - Indonesia needs to revitalize its policies in the migrant workers' sector to provide fair treatment for its migrant workers abroad who contribute foreign exchange to the state, an ILO official said.
"The treatment the Indonesian migrant workers have received so far is not yet comparable to their contribution to the state. The remittance from Indonesian migrant workers is the second largest foreign exchange contributor after the oil and gas sector," Irham Ali Saifuddin, capacity building specialist of the International Labour Organization (ILO) for Jakarta office, said here on Wednesday.
He said that Indonesian workers abroad sent remittances worth more than Rp73 trillion in foreign exchange to the country in 2013.
Irham was speaking as a resource person in a training here on Wednesday which carried a theme "Information and Communications Technology for the Protection of Housemaids."
"Remittances sent by migrant workers to their families in villages are very important for supporting economic activities. But what they got from the state was not yet comparable to the benefit of the remittances," he said. (*/M038)
