BPJS Ketenagakerjaan Ready to Protect Indonesian Migrant Workers  

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The labor division of the State's Social Security Agency (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan) is ready to protect Indonesian migrant workers (TKI). The agency is determined to ensure that the workers are safe when working abroad and will not be penniless when they return.

BPJS Ketenagakerjaan president director Agus Susanto said the agency is preparing to perfect the regulation on the protection of TKI workers before, during, and after they work.

"We are ready and we will begin by holding a focus group discussion today of trading experiences with South Korea and Malaysia on how to protect migrant workers," he said in Jakarta Wednesday, March 8. 

The BPJS Ketenagakerjaan invited Malaysia's Social Security Organisations (SOCSO) and the Korea Workers Composition & Welfare Service (KCOMWEL) to have the discussion in Jakarta today. 

The discussion was also attended by representatives from relevant ministries and agencies including the Coordinating Ministry for Human and Culture Development, The Labor Ministry, The Foreign Affairs Ministry, the National Social Security Council (DJSN), and the National Agency for Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI).

The BPJS has also established cooperation with South Korean social security agency to disburse TKI's pension funds that failed to be redeemed when the Indonesian workers were still there. 

ANTARA