A DILEMMA BETWEEN LEGALITY AND WELFARE: A CASE STUDY: REGISTERED INDONESIAN NATIONALITY IN GLAN, SOUTHERN MINDANAO THE PHILIPPINES
Abstract
This thesis has a purpose to elaborate the dilemma between
legality and welfare of Indonesian descent that have been
living in Southern Mindanao, The Philippines for several
decades. The author will elaborate the respond from the
Person of Indonesian Descents have owned new status as
Registered Indonesian Nationalities after own the passport
from the government of the Indonesia will face the dilemma
when the passport period get expired. There are 8745
Indonesian descents that have registered in Southern
Mindanao but only 2425 that finally registered as
Indonesian descents. The author found out until this
undergraduate thesis have been creating 1259 passports
that have distributed to the Registered Indonesian
Nationalities around Southern Mindanao, The Philippines.
The Dilemma for the Registered Indonesian Nationalities
mainly focused on the chain effect after they have owned
the passport because they will face several adjustments
after finally legally becoming Indonesian Citizenship. The
Registered Indonesian Nationalities commonly approve
and support the policy from the Indonesian Government to
give them a passport. However, the dilemma apparently
will come up after the passport get expired. Firstly, the
Registered Indonesian descents commonly live below the
poverty line and in the fact many of them that even cannot
pay the Alien Certificate of Registration that cost P.160 as
the document that they certified that they are foreigner that
live in the Philippines. Compare to the price of passport
that will cost them P.1500 per five years and work permit
visa for workers that will cost them P. 8000 per year and
additional P.3000 per year until five years. If the
Registered Indonesian Nationalities cannot find the way to
improve the amount of their income and they cannot find
the way to pay the passport they will directly consider when they passport already become expired due to they will
consider as the illegal migrants and will very vulnerable to
get deportation to Indonesia.