Legal Protection for Indonesian Migrant Workers During Pandemic Covid 19
The Case from Human Right Approach
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220407.071How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- legal; protection; migrant; workers
- Abstract
Covid-19 has implications for all aspects of life, changing various social and life structures in Indonesia, and in various countries around the world. The Indonesian state has the responsibility to provide protection to migrant workers who are abroad. The case highlighted here is Indonesian migrant workers, in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Migrant workers are often the first to get the consequences of a condition, but the latter get access to protection. Likewise, in this pandemic period, migrant workers are most affected by it, but the government’s response is not as fast as the consequences that befall them. The research method used is the normative juridical research method, which is a method that examines legal symptoms that occur based on legal theories or concepts, based on literature searches, statutory regulations, plus interviews with parties who are considered competent with the problem researched. The result of this research is Protection of Indonesian migrant workers during the Covid-19 pandemic from the Indonesian government has basically been carried out with various efforts, including by helping to provide health protection for Indonesian migrant workers abroad through the Social Security Administering Agency (BPJS) or the repatriation of migrant workers. both working legally and illegally.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Rini Irianti Sundary AU - Deddy Effendy AU - Chepy Ali Firman AU - Haidar Dziyauddin AU - Haswira Nor Muhammad Hasyim AU - Chandra Manungsa Alit PY - 2022 DA - 2022/04/23 TI - Legal Protection for Indonesian Migrant Workers During Pandemic Covid 19 BT - Proceedings of the 4th Social and Humanities Research Symposium (SoRes 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 352 EP - 356 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220407.071 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220407.071 ID - Sundary2022 ER -