A stakeholders' Meeting and Second
Asia-Pacific Regional Review of the implementation of the Global Compact for
Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) was held in Bangkok on 3-4 February
2025. The Government of Indonesia was represented by the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, BPS and BPJS to present a progress report on the implementation of the
GCM 2024. Unfortunately, the Ministry for the Protection of Indonesian Migrant
Workers was unable to attend the meeting. The four-day meeting was also used
for member state to prepare their reports to UN Headquarters in 2026 through a
forum called the International Migration Review Forum (IMRF).
Jaringan Buruh Migran (JBM),
represented by the JBM secretariat and Solidaritas Perempuan, had the
opportunity to attend this meeting to ensure that grassroots voices are heard
and implemented in the policies and programmes of the member states (governments
of the countries of origin and destination).
Savitri Wisnu, JBM National Secretary,
on Wednesday, 05 February 2025 on behalf of JBM, intervened in a roundtable
discussion on cluster 1: Ensure migration is voluntary, safe, orderly, and
regular (addressing objectives 2, 5, 6, 12, and 18).
All the activities of Second
Asia-Pacific Review of Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration, can
be viewed on the Youtube United Nations ESCAP : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV1hjTlNgiw
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The Intervention Speech :
Thank you chairperson. I am Savitri
Wisnuwardhani, Representing Jaringan
Buruh Migran (JBM), Coalition of
27 organizations both in Indonesia and abroad. To respond cluster 1 on Ensuring
that migration is voluntary, safe, orderly and regular, from our study, The
reasons why women migrant workers migrate are due to gender inequality, not
being involved in the decision-making process, economic discrimination, and the
impact of climate change and extractive industries.
In migration process, women migrant
workers have made a positive contribution to human growth and development in
countries of origin and destination.
However, female migrant workers are
among the groups most at risk of exploitation, harassment and labour rights
violations. Such as a vulnerable recruitment process, fee charges, the absence
of rights-based and gender-responsive assistance and protection mechanisms,
social and cultural isolation due to language and cultural barriers, lack of
adequate and accurate information of work, restrictions on freedom of movement
and association, the absence of employment law protection in the destination
country, as well as the threat of being expelled from the destination country.
The combination of these violations can overlap into human trafficking and
forced labour.
Therefore:
1. We urged for policies and services that eliminate discrimination
against migrant workers in countries of origin and destination based on human
rights principles and gender equality principles into policies, portable social
protection, decent work services and welfare services. Policies made must based
on evidence taken from the experiences and needs by migrant workers its self.
2. Women migrant workers are often undervalued, de-skilled and
exploited by employment agencies, we urged policies and services should promote
the upgrading of skills, including up-skilling, re-skilling and skills for
upward mobility.
3. In relation to charging migrant workers, we urge for policies
based on the principles of fair and ethical recruitment that recruitment fees
and related costs should not be charged to migrant workers.
4. We urged that bilateral and multilateral labour migration
agreements compliance with international labour standard and UN Treaties so
that all migrant workers have access to decent work, social protection,
education, public services, vocational training and family reunification.
5. Lastly, we urged to ratify the ILO Conventions (C87, C 98, C157/C102,
C189, C190, C181) and International Convention on Migrant Workers to prevent
abuse, harassment and violence by promoting occupational safety and health,
fair and decent works, I, Thanks you.
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