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Date of this Version
12-5-2021
Abstract
Women migrant workers from Indonesia are in great demand by placement countries to work in the domestic sector. West Java province ranks third largest as a contributor to the dominance of women migrant workers in Indonesia after Central Java and East Java. At the pre-placement stage their ability to understand all information about migration is very reliable. Prospective migrant workers must be given access to read, understood, and agree to every article in the employment agreement. Especially women, the dominance of the number of women working as migrant workers in the domestic sector adds to the condition of their vulnerability. The protection of women migrant workers is not only the responsibility of the government and private labour suppliers but also the responsibility of themselves as migrant workers. This study aims to reveal the importance of increasing the literacy of women migrant workers towards work agreements as a form of self-protection, because the state is not at the employer's house. The gender sensitivity approach (OSCE, 2009), the concept of impact literacy (Bayley and Phipps, 2019) and the principle of safe migration in SDG 10.7 serve as a guide in this research. The results of this study state that 1. It is necessary to increase literacy specifically for women migrant workers in the domestic sector 2. In seeking the protection of women migrant workers, the government needs to provide women-friendly work agreements specifically for women migrant workers in the domestic sector to reduce inequality.
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