dc.description.abstract | The primary objective of this research is to produce a scientific publication
published in accredited national journal and conference proceeding. Specifically, this
research aims are (1) to understand the Chinese migrant workers in Indonesia; (2) to
understand the perspective of Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia on Chinese
migrant workers in Indonesia; and (3) to propose recommendation to Indonesian
government based on the Indonesian migrant workers perspective in Malaysia.
The significant of this research are (1) the largest number and the highest
contributor of Indonesian remittance is the Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia.
Malaysia was also benefited by the influx of Indonesian migrant workers almost in all
economic sectors. (2) The main purpose of Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia is
for job opportunities, and for better living condition. (3) The influx of Chinese migrant
workers was blatantly hit Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia amid of the high
number of unemployment as well as job vacancies provided by the government. (4)
This was a humiliation against Indonesian workers which have struggled to migrate to
Malaysia even with illegal ways and very risk. In contrats to this, the government has
welcomed a large number of Chinese migrant workers which have been deployed in
various projects. The arrival of Chinese migrant workers, of course, became
controversial issue especially among Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia which
hace faced difficult situation such as exploitation, humiliation, and contract abuses.
Understanding this topic, to be sure, is important in order to push the government to
have high attention on Indonesian migrant workers as well as to creat more job
vacancies inside the country
This is qualitative with content analysis. All the collected data are obtained
trough library research with content analysis. This research also complemented with
un-structured interview as well as focus group discussion (FGD) with Indonesian
workers in Malaysia which already contacted, experts as well as academicians. | en_US |